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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsOther Colors: Essays and a Storyby Orhan Pamuk
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As expected, Other Colors: Essays and a Story is a tapestry of words and images. Pamuk does not disappoint readers with this collection. If you only read his fiction, welcome to the real world, as seen through the eyes of an artist. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Orhan Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces — personal, critical, and meditative — the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter's precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City. From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears. Again and again Pamuk declares his faith in fiction, engaging the work of such predecessors as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, sharing fragments from his notebooks, and commenting on his own novels. He contemplates his mysterious compulsion to sit alone at a desk and dream, always returning to the rich deliverance that is reading and writing. By turns witty, moving, playful, and provocative, Other Colors glows with the energy of a master at work and gives us the world through his eyes, assigning every radiant theme and shifting mood its precise shade in the spectrum of significance. Review:"Though the latest book from Nobel Prize-winning Pamuk (Istanbul, Snow) is a standard late-career essay collection, it makes clear the reasons behind the Turkish author's acclaim. Eschewing flash and flourish, Pamuk's style is plain, simple and persuasive-but therein lies its subtle power, well represented over more than 75 pieces divided into sections like 'Living and Worrying' and 'Politics, Europe, and Other Problems of Being Oneself.' Self-reflection and cultural evolution emerge often as twin themes, as in his consideration of the Thousand and One Nights: 'In those days, young Turks like me who considered themselves modern viewed the classics of eastern literature as one might a dark and impenetrable forest.' These concerns lead naturally to political considerations, such as his conclusion that 'the lies about the war in Iraq and... secret CIA prisons have so damaged the West's credibility in Turkey... it is more and more difficult for people like me to make the case for true western democracy in my part of the world.' There's humor as well; in 'Giving Up Smoking,' a smoking cab driver begs Pamuk's pardon: 'He was opening the window. "No," I said, "keep it closed. I've given up smoking."' Also included are musings on his own books and a short story, 'To Look Out the Window.' Disarmingly honest, Pamuk refuses to give in to melodrama or stylistic quirks, giving his feeling and frustration crystalline clarity and lasting weight." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) About the AuthorOrhan Pamuk is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He lives in Istanbul. Table of ContentsPreface LIVING AND WORRYING 1. The Implied Author 2. My Father 3. Notes on April 29, 1994 4. Spring Afternoons 5. Dead Tired in the Evening 6. Out of Bed, in the Silence of Night 7. When the Furniture Is Talking, How Can You Sleep? 8. Giving Up Smoking 9. Seagull in the Rain 10. A Seagull Lies Dying on the Shore 11. To Be Happy 12. My Wristwatches 13. Im Not Going to School 14. Rüya and Us 15. When Rüya Is Sad 16. The View 17. What I Know About Dogs 18. A Note on Poetic Justice 19. After the Storm 20. In This Place Long Ago 21. The House of the Man Who Has No One 22. Barbers 23. Fires and Ruins 24. Frankfurter 25. Bosphorus Ferries 26. The Islands 27. Earthquake 28. Earthquake Angst in Istanbul BOOKS AND READING 29. How I Got Rid of Some of My Books 30. On Reading: Words or Images 31. The Pleasures of Reading 32. Nine Notes on Book Covers 33. To Read or Not to Read: The Thousand and One Nights 34. Foreword to Tristram Shandy: Everyone Should Have an Uncle Like This 35. Victor Hugos Passion for Greatness 36. Dostoyevskys Notes from Underground: The Joys of Degradation 37. Dostoyevskys Fearsome Demons 38. The Brothers Karamazov 39. Cruelty, Beauty, and Time: On Nabokovs Ada and Lolita 40. Albert Camus 41. Reading Thomas Bernhard in a Time of Unhappiness 42. The World of Thomas Bernhards Novels 43. Mario Vargas Llosa and Third World Literature 44. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses and the Freedom of the Writer POLITICS, EUROPE, AND OTHER PROBLEMS OF BEING ONESELF 45. PEN Arthur Miller Speech 46. No Entry 47. Where Is Europe? 48. A Guide to Being Mediterranean 49. My First Passport and Other European Journeys 50. André Gide 51. Family Meals and Politics on Religious Holidays 52. The Anger of the Damned 53. Traffic and Religion 54. In Kars and Frankfurt 55. On Trial 56. Who Do You Write For? MY BOOKS ARE MY LIFE 57. The White Castle Afterword 58. The Black Book: Ten Years On 59. A Selection from Interviews on The New Life 60. A Selection from Interviews on My Name Is Red 61. On My Name Is Red 62. From the Snow in Kars Notebooks PICTURES AND TEXTS 63. Sirins Surprise 64. In the Forest and as Old as the World 65. Murders by Unknown Assailants and Detective Novels 66. Entracte; or, Ah, Cleopatra! 67. Why Didnt I Become an Architect? 68. Selimiye Mosque 69. Bellini and the East 70. Black Pen 71. Meaning OTHER CITIES, OTHER CIVILIZATIONS 72. My First Encounters with Americans 73. Views from the Capital of the World THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEW TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW MY FATHERS SUITCASE Index What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 1 comment:
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