Summary
Orhan Pamuk: Naive and sentimental novelist
Translated by Maja Tančik
"What happens in our mind, our soul, when we read a novel? How do these inner feelings differ from the feelings that overwhelm us when we watch a movie, look at an artistic painting, or listen to some poetry, or even an epic? A novel can sometimes give us pleasure equal to what someone's biography, film, a poem, a painting or a fairy tale. But the authentic, unadulterated effect of this art is fundamentally different from the action of other literary genres, film and painting. Perhaps I could best indicate what I did and what ideas arose in me when I was so passionately reading." This book brings together a series of lectures that the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk gave at Harvard University in 2009. He talks about the experience of reading and writing great epic forms, the role of the writer's biography in the creation of a fictional work, the relationship of the novel to other narrative and non-narrative arts and much more. Literature for everyone who wants to replace "naive" reading pleasure with "sentimental" insight into the mechanisms of artistic prose creation.
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