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
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Me | 18 |
A Sad Tour of the Streets | 27 |
Black and White | 44 |
Exploring the Bosphorus | 70 |
Mellings Bosphorus Landscapes | 101 |
Hizin | 155 |
Four Lonely Melancholic Writers | 184 |
My Grandmother | 192 |
The Joy and Monotony of School | 198 |
Esaelp Gnittips On | 207 |
Ahmet Rasim and Other City Columnists | 213 |
Dont Walk Down the Street with Your Mouth Open | 222 |
The Pleasures of Painting | 237 |
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