Summary
Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul in photographs: city, memories
In the overflowing of memories and history, a mosaic of family photos, portraits of poets, painters and pashas, art criticism, metaphysical reflections, with the occasional fantastic dash, Orhan Pamuk creates a new prose form: a kaleidoscope of his hometown at the meeting of worlds, which shaped his literary imagination. From childhood, the author matures with the knowledge that the citizens of Istanbul are connected by a common longing: the awareness that they live on the ruins of a famous empire, in a country struggling to become modern at the dizzying crossroads of East and West. Against the background of dilapidated monuments, neglected villas and ghostly alleys in the lost paradise on the Bosphorus, Pamuk overlaps his own sense of belonging to the place and history with the images and stories of his predecessors. He traces the path of a rich and sometimes dark life in his imagination, which as a small dreamer provided him with refuge from family conflicts and turmoil - and remained an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the writer he became. With two hundred additional photos and a foreword, the new edition of the book "Istanbul – City, memories" is at the same time panoramic and intimate, an unmissable portrait of the fabulous metropolis from the pen of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.
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