The book also examines how Pamuk uses the postmodern city to move beyond its postmodern confines, and utilizes the theories and universes of Bakhtin, Benjamin, and Foucault to open up his fiction and radically challenge the idea of the novel.
Through everyday objects and architecture, it shows how Pamuk transforms the city into a living museum where different objects converse along with characters to present a rich tapestry across space and time.įurther, the monograph explores the formation of communal and literary identity within and around nation-building narratives informed by capitalism and modernization. It navigates the multiple selves and layers of Istanbul to present how the city has shaped the writings of Pamuk and has, in turn, been shaped by it. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk's fiction. He then guides us through Istanbul’s monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, and introduces us to the city’s writers, artists and murderers. Beginning in the family apartment building where he was born, and still lives, Pamuk uses his family secrets to show how they were typical of their time and place.
What begins as a portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s greatest cities. In a surprising and original blend of personal memoir and cultural history, Turkey’s most celebrated novelist, Orhan Pamuk, explores his home of more than fifty years. ‘An irresistibly seductive book’ Jan Morris, Guardian ‘A fascinating read for anyone who has even the slightest acquaintance with this fabled bridge between east and west.’ The Economist ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer.
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