عنوان

Istanbul :

(Number (ISBN

1400033888

(Number (ISBN

9781400033881

Number

b519703

Title Proper

Istanbul :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

memories and the city /

First Statement of Responsibility

Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

Edition Statement

First Vintage International edition

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Vintage International,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 384 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

21 cm

Text of Note

Includes index

Text of Note

Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005

Text of Note

Another Orhan -- The photographs in the dark museum house -- "Me" -- The destruction of the Pashas' mansions : a sad tour of the streets -- Black and white -- Exploring the Bosphorus -- Melling's Bosphorus landscapes -- My mother, my father, and various disappearances -- Another house : Cihangir -- Hüzün -- Four lonely melancholic writers -- My grandmother -- The joy and monotony of school -- Esaelp gnittips on -- Ahmet Rasim and other city columnists -- Don't walk down the street with your mouth open -- The pleasures of painting -- Reşat Ekrem Koçu's collection of facts and curiosities : the Istanbul encyclopedia -- Conquest or decline? : the Turkification of Constantinople -- Religion -- The rich -- On the ships that passed through the Bosphorus, famous fires, moving house, and other disasters -- Nerval in Istanbul : Beyoğlu walks -- Gautier's melancholic strolls through the city -- Under Western eyes -- The melancholy of the ruins : Tanpınar and Yahya Kemal in the city's poor neighborhoods -- The picturesque and the outlying neighborhoods -- Painting Istanbul -- Painting and family happiness -- The smoke rising from ships on the Bosphorus -- Flaubert in Istanbul : East, West, and syphilis -- Fights with my older brother -- A foreigner in a foreign school -- To be unhappy is to hate oneself and one's city -- First love -- The ship on the Golden Horn -- A conversation with my mother : patience, caution, and art

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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

General Material Designation

İstanbul, hatıralar ve șehir.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Pamuk, Orhan,1952-

Authors, Turkish-- 20th century, Biography.

Istanbul (Turkey), Description and travel.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Class number

Book number

Book number

Pamuk, Orhan,1952-

Freely, Maureen,1952-

Date of Transaction

20180912115256.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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