Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk
Sadness is the word most used by Pamuk to narrate his story of love with Istanbul.
Why a love story between a child is born into a wealthy family, a beautiful mother, whom he (clearly) loves, and a languid city , decadent, sad, gray, dirty, breathless, to the exasperation of confrontation with the West.
Sadness " is a passion of the mind that the city has assimilated with pride. "
Istanbul is the background of life and the lives of Pamuk Pamuk is the background to the story of the city. The two lives intersect full of sadness and melancholy of Istanbul, and the failure of his ambition to the big city on the border between East and West and Orhan, a childhood and adolescence in constant tension between parents.
A witness many photographs: views of a city into a charming abandon, a city in black and white, calls it the writer, and images of a middle class family, with all the cliches of the affluent middle class.
And then the excitement of the 800 French writers to Istanbul, Pamuk's love for literature and writers Western Turks, his masters, the promoters of an Encyclopedia of Istanbul.
After reading this book full of charm and full of love, hit me Pamuk's flight from Istanbul to the death threats received. I must confess that I never would have expected it. Perhaps, after so many statements, I would have imagined the barricades until the last breath.
But the writers are men with all their fears. And when you start to be famous to be very difficult to give up the celebrity and all that this condition carries.
February 12, 2007
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