

A carregar... Illustrated Istanbul (2003)
Pormenores da obraIstanbul: Memories and the City por Orhan Pamuk (2003)
![]() Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Over my head. I didn't understand much of anything until the last 100 pages, and from then on, I enjoyed myself reading it. I spent a weekend in Istanbul, and thought I'd educate myself by reading this text once I returned to Rome. I didn't start it for more than six months after that trip to Istanbul, and having spent the entirety of my trip in tourist-land, most of this book, the parts about Istanbul itself, was lost on me. However, when it turned to Pamuk himself, to his struggles with love and university studies, I finally found something to relate to. ( ![]() > Orhan Pamuk ISTANBUL. SOUVENIRS D’UNE VILLE Paris, Gallimard, 2007, 445 p., 22 € Se reporter au compte rendu de Guillaume LE BLANC In: Revue Esprit No. 340 (12) (Décembre 2007), p. 264… ; (en ligne), URL : https://esprit.presse.fr/article/guillaume-le-blanc/orhan-pamuk-istanbul-souveni... > Orhan Pamuk ISTANBUL SOUVENIRS D'UNE VILLE Trad. du turc par Savas Demirel, Valérie Gay- Aksoy et jean-François Pérouse Gallimard, Paris, 2007, 445 p. ; 39,95 $ Se reporter au compte rendu de Michèle BERNARD In: (2007). Compte rendu de [Essai]. Nuit blanche, n° 109 (hiver 2007–2008), pp. 62–63… ; (en ligne), URL : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/19840ac A book to return to. Istanbul is Pamuk's memoir,intertwined with stories about Western depictions of the city--painters and writers--and Istanbul's writers and poets. The idea is that his story is impossible to separate from Istanbul's, and to understand it you must also understand the city's story. The book is also full of photos--some of Pamuk and his family, many of the city--it reminds me a bit of the photos in Sebald's books--somehow elusive and evocative at the same time. I wish I'd read it with a map of Istanbul at my side, and perhaps some clue how to pronounce Turkish names (as this might make me able to recall the names!). Meier, Gerhard (trans.) Oh, what a delight. One gets to spend time with Pamuk and with his city. Any interest whatsoever in the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire, or Istanbul today, then this is a must read. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become "modern" at the crossroads of East and West. Against a background of shattered monuments, neglected villas, ghostly backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he charts the evolution of a rich imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy refuge from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to serve the famous writer he was to become. --From publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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