Istanbul memories and the city /
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an i...
| Uniform Title: | İstanbul, hatıralar ve șehir. English |
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| Main Author: | Pamuk, Orhan, 1952- |
| Other Authors: | Freely, Maureen, 1952- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Turkish |
| Published: |
New York :
Knopf,
2005.
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Another Orhan
- The photographs in the dark museum house
- "Me"
- The destruction of the Pashas' mansions: a sad tour of the streets
- Black and white
- Exploring the Bosphorus
- Melling's Bosphorus landscapes
- My mother, my father, and various disappearances
- Another house: Cihangir
- Hüzün
- Four lonely melancholic writers
- My grandmother
- The joy and monotony of school
- Esaelp gnittips on
- Ahmet Rasim and other city columnists
- Don't walk down the street with your mouth open
- The pleasures of painting
- Reşat Ekrem Koçu's collection of facts and curiosities: the Istanbul Encyclopedia
- Conquest or decline? The Turkification of Constantinople
- Religion
- The rich
- On the ships that passed through the Bosphorus, famous fires, moving house, and other disasters
- Nerval in Istanbul: Beyoğlu walks
- Gautier's melancholic strolls through the city
- Under western eyes
- The melancholy of the ruins: Tanpınar and Yahya Kemal in the city's poor neighborhoods
- The picturesque and the outlying neighborhoods
- Painting Istanbul
- Painting and family happiness
- The smoke rising from ships on the Bosphorus
- Flaubert in Istanbul: east, west and syphilis
- Fights with my older brother
- A foreigner in a foreign school
- To be unhappy is to hate oneself and one's city
- First love
- The ship on the Golden Horn
- A conversation with my mother: patience, caution, and art.