Particularize Books To Other Colors: Essays and A Story
Original Title: | Öteki Renkler: Seçme Yazılar ve Bir Hikaye |
ISBN: | 0307266753 (ISBN13: 9780307266750) |
Edition Language: | English URL http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307386236 |
Orhan Pamuk
Hardcover | Pages: 448 pages Rating: 3.92 | 1977 Users | 209 Reviews
Details Appertaining To Books Other Colors: Essays and A Story
Title | : | Other Colors: Essays and A Story |
Author | : | Orhan Pamuk |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | First United States Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
Published | : | September 18th 2007 by Knopf (first published 1999) |
Categories | : | Writing. Essays. Nonfiction. Short Stories. Cultural. Turkish. Literature. Asian Literature. Turkish Literature. Nobel Prize |
Representaion Concering Books Other Colors: Essays and A Story
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.
Rating Appertaining To Books Other Colors: Essays and A Story
Ratings: 3.92 From 1977 Users | 209 ReviewsCritique Appertaining To Books Other Colors: Essays and A Story
What does a note mean to a writer? I dont know the answer at first. The worse was that I could not discover the importance of making notes to a writer. I was so naive to think that the way a writer works was less complicated than a process engineer in a chemical factory: first, determine the existing chemical reactions and the overall process outflow; second, define the raw materials and products in order to calculate the material and energy balance; and, third, optimize the way utility systemI read it before travelling to Turkey on vacation in order to get in the mood. I liked it because of the cultural information and because I enjoyed Pamuk's vision on being a writer and a turkish man. In spite of having read it in Portuguese (a translation of the american version), I enjoyed Pamuk's style and it made me want to read one of his novels.
A collection of essays with such topics as "Living and Worrying," "Books and Reading," and "Politics, Europe, and Other problems of Being Oneself." Again I enjoyed Pamuk's writing - sensitive, thoughtful, not neglecting the small things in life. One of my favorite stories that I've read out loud to people is "To Be Happy," about a routine - a trip to the sea - that he takes with his daughter Ruya. The last paragraph reads: "On the way back, while I'm pulling Ruya's wagon, we're both tired and
A Resurrection of the Ordinary, November 1, 2007 "Pamuk has two enduring loves: books and Istanbul. Often they converge as his journeys through his hometown come to resemble excursions through memory itself." Pico Iyer I had the extraordinary good fortune to see and hear Orhan Pamuk speak at Dartmouth College about his life, his writing, his family and his books, on the first anniversary of his Noble Prize for Literature. Orhan Pamuk elicited total attention as he brought us from his education
Really, I cant believe this guy won the Nobel Prize. Let me swiftly qualify this to say Pamuk won the Big Prize for novels, and this is not a novel, and I have not read any of his novels, so I am being grossly unfair here. Until I have read a novel or two I will withdraw my Nobel Prize dismay. As for the book at had, how shall I start? These are autobiographical, literary, and current events essays. Most of them are very short, just a couple-three pages or so. Despite promising moments, most of
Good literature. I hardly happen to like contemporary writers but Orhan writes straight from his soul. The first few essays were absolutely amazing but then it got more specific which was still alright, however, I wanted to read more of the stuff he started the book with.
The Baltimore Sun describes 2006 Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's latest work as "part diary, part travelogue, part confession, part writer's guide to the galaxy, part political tract, part spiritual journey, part paean to the beauty of language and the configuration of words." Though critics agreed that the pieces were uneven, they were completely divided over which essays were the best. They also differed over Maureen Freely's translation: some praised her smooth, conversational rendering,
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