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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307266753
ISBN-13
9780307266750
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59061649
Product Key Features
Original Language
Turkish
Book Title
Other Colors : Essays and a Story
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
General, Essays
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-021132
Reviews
"Pamuk is that rarest of creatures, a fabulist of ideas…InOther Colors…Pamuk gives us several of his many selves in a centrifugal gathering of memory-pieces, sketches, interviews and unexpected flights…[that] feel more like a rich and suggestive set of explorations…His books are, really celebrations of multiplicity…the mysteries they set up are always more delicious than any attempt to solve them…Yet mostly what this collection gives us…is a chance to savor one of the inimitable literary storytellers of our time…Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive." - Pico Iyer,New York Times Book Review "He is the poet of the labyrinth of his own thoughts and conceits, of the fabulous and the gently ambiguous." - Colin Thubron,The New York Review "what emerges…is a voice, part playful and part deadly, whose refracted reality a real nightingale might envy." - Richard Eder,Los Angeles Times Book Review "Other Colorsis composed of shrewdly arranged occasional pieces, fragments from journals and other miscellany, edited and at times rewritten to form a remarkably cohesive picture of a literary man…Beyond its clever charm and its wise observationsOther Colorsis a plea to stand back and consider the historical and psychological causes of today's alarming headlines." - Roger Kaplan,Washington Post Book World, "Pamuk is that rarest of creatures, a fabulist of ideas…InOther Colors…Pamuk gives us several of his many selves in a centrifugal gathering of memory-pieces, sketches, interviews and unexpected flights…[that] feel more like a rich and suggestive set of explorations…His books are, really celebrations of multiplicity…the mysteries they set up are always more delicious than any attempt to solve them…Yet mostly what this collection gives us…is a chance to savor one of the inimitable literary storytellers of our time…Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive." - Pico Iyer,New York Times Book Review "He is the poet of the labyrinth of his own thoughts and conceits, of the fabulous and the gently ambiguous." - Colin Thubron,The New York Review "what emerges…is a voice, part playful and part deadly, whose refracted reality a real nightingale might envy." - Richard Eder,Los Angeles Times Book Review "Other Colorsis composed of shrewdly arranged occasional pieces, fragments from journals and other miscellany, edited and at times rewritten to form a remarkably cohesive picture of a literary man…Beyond its clever charm and its wise observationsOther Colorsis a plea to stand back and consider the historical and psychological causes of today's alarming headlines." - Roger Kaplan,Washington Post Book World From the Hardcover edition., "Pamuk is that rarest of creatures, a fabulist of ideas…In Other Colors …Pamuk gives us several of his many selves in a centrifugal gathering of memory-pieces, sketches, interviews and unexpected flights…[that] feel more like a rich and suggestive set of explorations…His books are, really celebrations of multiplicity…the mysteries they set up are always more delicious than any attempt to solve them…Yet mostly what this collection gives us…is a chance to savor one of the inimitable literary storytellers of our time…Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive." - Pico Iyer, New York Times Book Review "He is the poet of the labyrinth of his own thoughts and conceits, of the fabulous and the gently ambiguous." - Colin Thubron, The New York Review "what emerges…is a voice, part playful and part deadly, whose refracted reality a real nightingale might envy." - Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review " Other Colors is composed of shrewdly arranged occasional pieces, fragments from journals and other miscellany, edited and at times rewritten to form a remarkably cohesive picture of a literary man…Beyond its clever charm and its wise observations Other Colors is a plea to stand back and consider the historical and psychological causes of today's alarming headlines." - Roger Kaplan, Washington Post Book World
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
894/.3533
Table Of Content
Preface LIVING AND WORRYING 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. Rüya and Us 15. When Rüya 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 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 or 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 Joys 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. André 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 an Architect? 68. Selimiye Mosque 69. Bellini and the East 70. Black Pen 71. Meaning OTHER CITIES, OTHER CIVILIZATIONS 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 Index
Synopsis
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, and meditative-the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter's precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City. From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears. Again and again Pamuk declares his faith in fiction, engaging the work of such predecessors as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, sharing fragments from his notebooks, and commenting on his own novels. He contemplates his mysterious compulsion to sit alone at a desk and dream, always returning to the rich deliverance that is reading and writing. By turns witty, moving, playful, and provocative, Other Colors glows with the energy of a master at work and gives us the world through his eyes, assigning every radiant theme and shifting mood its precise shade in the spectrum of significance.
LC Classification Number
PL248.P34O8413 2007
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