Istanbul (Deluxe Edition): Memories and the CityFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy--or hüzün--that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters--both Turkish and foreign--who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving. |
Contents
Another Orhan | 1 |
The Photographs in the Dark Museum House | 2 |
Me | 3 |
A Sad Tour of the Streets | 4 |
Black and White | 5 |
Exploring the Bosphorus | 6 |
Mellings Bosphorus Landscapes | 7 |
My Mother My Father and Various Disappearances | 8 |
The Rich | 290 |
On the Ships That Passed Through the Bosphorus Famous Fires Moving House and Other Disasters | 313 |
Beyoğlu Walks | 339 |
Gautiers Melancholic Strolls Through the City | 345 |
Under Western Eyes | 364 |
Tanpınar and Yahya Kemal in the Citys Poor Neighborhoods | 377 |
The Picturesque and the Outlying Neighborhoods | 393 |
Painting Istanbul | 414 |
Cihangir | 9 |
Hüzün | 10 |
Four Lonely Melancholic Writers | 11 |
My Grandmother | 12 |
The Joy and Monotony of School | 198 |
Esaclp Gnittips | 207 |
Ahmet Rasim and Other City Columnists | 213 |
Dont Walk Down the Street with Your Mouth Open | 222 |
The Pleasures of Painting 8 m a | 237 |
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18 | 242 |
The Istanbul Encyclopedia | 243 |
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Conquest or Decline? The Turkification of Constantinople | 274 |
Religion | 281 |
Painting and Family Happiness | 424 |
The Smoke Rising from Ships on the Bosphorus | 429 |
East West and Syphilis | 440 |
Fights with My Older Brother | 448 |
A Foreigner in a Foreign School | 458 |
To Be Unhappy Is to Hate Oneself and Ones City | 478 |
First Love | 493 |
The Ship on the Golden Horn | 509 |
Patience Caution and | 532 |
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