Adaptation and analysis of the story "Rostam and Sohrab" and "Prince Oedipus" in the novel "Red Haired Woman"by Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is the author of the novel "Red Haired Woman". In the narration of the novel, he has mentioned the story of "Rostam and Sohrab" and "Prince Oedipus" in a frequent and wide-ranging manner. This contemporary Turkish novelist has  analyzed the themes, motivations and details of the story "Rostam and Sohrab" and "Prince Oedipus" in addition to narrating the stories and recreating them. This causes a question in the mind: what  is his purpose by using the themes of these two stories? In this research, the quality and purpose of recreating two myths belonging to two ancient civilizations with the theme of father-son relationships has been analyzed. The results showed that in this novel, the author has compared the archetype of "father killing" and  'son killing" from the mythological stories of Western and Eastern civilizations. Pamuk tried and was able to show that Turkey's culture is a bridge between East and West, as well as its location, and there are cultural signs from both civilizations in it. Even thoug the stories have been forgotten In the current society of Turkey for different reasons; But their  cultural expression are alive yet. In fact, Pamuk's initiative is that he has purposefully created a postmodern novel by benefiting from ancient literary works, and in this way he was able to present a symbolic interpretation of the national culture and psychology of his society. In the current research, data collection has been done in a library manner. Its method is descriptive-analytical.