Istanbul (Deluxe Edition): Memories and the City

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün —that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters—both Turkish and foreign—who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving. Cover Also by Orhan Pamuk Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Introduction 1 Another Orhan 2 The Photographs in the Dark Museum House 3 “Me” 4 The Destruction of the Pashas’ Mansions: A Sad Tour of the Streets 5 Black and White 6 Exploring the Bosphorus 7 Melling’s Bosphorus Landscapes 8 My Mother, My Father, and Various Disappearances 9 Another House: Cihangir 10 Hüzün 11 Four Lonely Melancholic Writers 12 My Grandmother 13 The Joy and Monotony of School 14 Esaelp Gnittips On 15 Ahmet Rasim and Other City Columnists 16 Don’t Walk Down the Street with Your Mouth Open 17 The Pleasures of Painting 18 Reşat Ekrem Koçu’s Collection of Facts and Curiosities: The Istanbul Encyclopedia 19 Conquest or Decline? The Turkification of Constantinople 20 Religion 21 The Rich 22 On the Ships That Passed Through the Bosphorus, Famous Fires, Moving House, and Other Disasters 23 Nerval in Istanbul: Beyoğlu Walks 24 Gautier’s Melancholic Strolls Through the City 25 Under Western Eyes 26 The Melancholy of the Ruins: Tanpınar and Yahya Kemal in the City’s Poor Neighborhoods 27 The Picturesque and the Outlying Neighborhoods 28 Painting Istanbul 29 Painting and Family Happiness 30 The Smoke Rising from Ships on the Bosphorus 31 Flaubert in Istanbul: East, West, and Syphilis 32 Fights with My Older Brother 33 A Foreigner in a Foreign School 34 To Be Unhappy Is to Hate Oneself and One’s City 35 First Love 36 The Ship on the Golden Horn 37 A Conversation with My Mother: Patience, Caution, and Art Illustration Credits From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy--or hUzUn--that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters--both Turkish and foreign--who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving 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 ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become "modern" at the crossroads of East and West. Against a background of shattered monuments, neglected villas, ghostly backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he charts the evolution of a rich imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy refuge from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to serve the famous writer he was to become. --From publisher description "This extraordinary anthology gathers together the most startling poems against war ever written: from an infamous last stand in Ancient Greece to the chemical warfare of the present day Gulf"--Page 4 of cover Orhan Pamuk ; Translated From The Turkish By Maureen Freely. With A New Introduction By The Author--book Jacket. Includes Index.