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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,... read more
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“I just miss my old self, the way I might miss a dear friend, a face; all I want is to return to the man I once was. I feel as if I've been forced to wear clothes I haven't chosen, as if they have made me into man I never wished to be. (p.29)”
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“There are two things people always say about the Thousand and One Nights. One is that no one has ever managed to read the book from start to finish. The second is that anyone who does read it from start to finish is sure to die. Certainly an alert reader who has seen how these two warnings fit together will wish to proceed with caution. But there's no reason for fear. Because we're all going to die one day, whether we read the Thousand and One Nights or not. (p.122)”
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Nothing can penetrate into the cracks, holes, and invisible gaps of life as fast or as thoroughly as words can.
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A writer’s progress will depend to a large degree on having read good books.
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All great novels open your eyes to things you already knew but could not accept, simply because no great novel had yet opened your eyes to them.
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But to read well is not to pass one’s eyes and one’s mind slowly and carefully over a text: it is to immerse oneself utterly in its soul. This is why we fall in love with only a few books in a lifetime.
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It is not difficult to dream a book. I do this a lot, just as I spend a great deal of time imagining myself as someone else. The difficult thing is to become your dream book’s implied author.
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Good literature is a piece of wise counsel that has yet to be given, and as such it has the same aura of needfulness as the latest news; that is mainly why I still depend on it.
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For it is by reading novels, stories, and myths that we come to understand the ideas that govern the world in which we live; it is fiction that gives us access to the truths kept veiled by our families, our schools, and our society; it is the art of the novel that allows us to ask who we really are.
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book covers are like people’s faces: Either they remind us of a happiness we once knew or they promise a blissful world we have yet to explore. That is why we gaze at book covers as passionately as we do at faces.
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active ingredients are boredom, real life, and the life of the imagination.
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To write a novel is to be open to these desires, winds, and inspirations, and also to the dark recesses of our minds and their moments of mist and stillness.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Istanbul
- Europe
- Turkey
- Dostoyevsky
- New York
- America
- Russia
- France
- Bosphorus
- Paris
- Heybeliada
- Frankfurt
- Germany
- Republic
- London
- Islam
- Black Book
- Tehran
- Rilya
- Geneva
- Iran
- Ankara
- China
- India
- Manhattan
- Stendhal
- Peru
- Brooklyn
- Venice
- Beyoglu
- Brothers Karamazov
- Anatolia
- England
- Flaubert
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This is a book made of ideas, images, and fragments of life that have still not found their way into one of my novels.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
LIVING AND WORSHIPPING
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. I'm Not Going to School
14. Ruya and Us
15. When Ruya 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 Princes' 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 and 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 Hugo's Passion for Greatness
36. Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground: The Joy's of Degradation
37. Dostoyevsky's Fearsome Demons
38. The Brothers Karamazov
39. Cruelty, Beauty, and Time: On Nabokov's Ada and Lolita
40. Albert Camus
41. Reading Thomas Bernhard in a Time of Unhappiness
42. The World of Thomas Bernhard's 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. Andre 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.Sirin's Surprise
64. In the Forest and as Old as the World
65. Murders by Unknown Assailants and Detective Novels
66. Entr'acte; or, Ah, Cleopatra!
67. Why Didn't I Become and Architect?
68. Selimiye Mosque
69. Bellini and the East
70. Black Pen
71. Meaning
OTHER CITIES, OTHER CIVILISATIONS
72. My First Encounters with Americans
73. Views from the Capital of the World
THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEW
TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
MY FATHER'S SUITCASE
Authors & Contributors edit
- Orhan Pamuk (Author)
- Maureen Freely
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 894.3533
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