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SCOTT HORTON?The Importance of Being Orhan |
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Who is the greatest living writer? Society doesn?t tend to be a great judge of the living. Bestsellers don?t usually withstand the test of time. Geniuses often go unrecognized, living on the margins of society and achieve fame only long after their death. There are, of course, the comfortable exceptions: Goethe, Hugo, Tolstoy, Twain. So perhaps it?s far too early to assay the greatness of the contemporary generation. But I have a sense that one of the prime contenders will be the man who is the subject of Christopher De Bellaigue?s essay in the current Harper?s: Orhan Pamuk. . . .
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