Sophocles's Oedipus meets Ferdowi's Sohrab and Rustom in Orhan Pamuk's The Red Haired Woman
by Shougat Dasgupta
Oct 12, 2017
1 minute
We men want to kill our fathers and sleep with our mothers. It is an essential stage in our psychosexual development. Or so Freud told us.
In The Red Haired Woman, his deceptively slight new novel, Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan
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