Istanbul

memories and the city

Paperback, 384 pages

English language

Published Jan. 15, 2006 by Vintage International.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-3388-1
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OCLC Number:
70790850

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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.

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Som de navios, sombra de ruínas: minha leitura de Istanbul

Ao abrir Istanbul, encontrei um livro que é memória, ensaio e mapa sentimental. Orhan Pamuk, do vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura, descreve a cidade como quem percorre um álbum em preto e branco: ruas estreitas, casarões de madeira desabando, fumaça dos navios no Bósforo, interiores silenciosos onde famílias aguardam um futuro que tarda. Li com o passo lento de quem observa fotografias antigas. A palavra que amarra tudo é “hüzün”, uma melancolia coletiva, densa e ao mesmo tempo ativa, que molda o olhar e o modo de andar por Istambul.

Pamuk alterna a própria infância — apartamentos, brigas domésticas, o fascínio pela biblioteca do pai — com a história urbana: incêndios, decadência otomana, a ocidentalização incompleta, a herança de yalı arruinados. O texto dialoga com viajantes europeus e autores turcos; contrapõe o desejo de pertencer ao mundo moderno ao orgulho ferido de uma grandeza perdida. Senti um …

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Subjects

  • Description and travel

Places

  • Istanbul (Turkey)