The Impact of Urban Pamok’s novel"Bafr" on Baktyar Ali’s Novel Gazalnus u Bakhakani Khayal?

Abstract

This comparative research is based upon French disciplinary methods. The research contrasts and analyzes the main characters of two texts, and how one character has influenced the character of the other text. The research portrays how the protagonist in Orhan Pamuk‌s “The Snow”, written in 2002 (translated in to Kurdish 2007) has had an influence on the main character in Bakhtyar Ali‌s “The Ghazal writer and the gardens of Imagination”, which was written in 2008. The reader can easily detect the similar aspects between the two stories; the return to their homelands after continuous immigration, and the same experiences both characters have gone through. A specific event, is when both characters have corresponding housing situations.  Another is the lovers they both have. One falls in love with the hotel keeper‌s daughter, the other falls in love with the hotel keeper‌s wife. The analogy entails other literary similarities such as: theme, dialogue, description, and in particular narrative technique.

This influence doesn‌t regard the whole novel, only those particular aspects that are ‘heavily‌ similar to both main characters of the novel. It‌s evident that “The Ghazel writer and the garden of imagination” ‘s main character has substantially been adapted and borrowed from “The Snow” ‘s protagonist.