The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: that origin is increasingly becoming a defining term in the consideration of works by artists such as Mona Hatoum and Shirin Neshat. Resisting any homogenizing impulse, Without Boundary recognizes a need to ask if this art is marked by an Islamic difference. Author and curator Fereshteh Daftari considers issues ranging from the aesthetic legacy of Islamic art to contemporary ideas of identity and faith. Essays by MoMA Director...
The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but ...
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen FreelyGalip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband orCelal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celal, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celal's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.With its...
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen FreelyGalip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappear...
In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction,...
In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving,...
§Kemals Verlobung mit Sibel steht kurz bevor, da tritt die blutjunge und schöne Füsun in sein Leben. Was als Affäre begonnen hat, wächst sich bald zu einer Obsession aus. Dennoch hält Kemal an Sibel fest. Nach dem rauschenden Fest der Verlobung, verschwindet Füsun spurlos völlig verzweifelt erkennt Kemal, dass er Füsun über alles liebt. Zu spät, sie hat einen anderen Mann geheiratet. Nach Jahren besucht er sie und ihre Familie und entwendet bei jedem Besuch kleine, wertlose Gegenstände: es entsteht ein persönliches Museum, das Museum der Unschuld. Orhan Pamuk erzählt eine...
§Kemals Verlobung mit Sibel steht kurz bevor, da tritt die blutjunge und schöne Füsun in sein Leben. Was als Affäre begonnen hat, wächst sich bal...
Kemal, ein junger Mann aus der Oberschicht Istanbuls, verfllt der Liebe zu einer armen Verwandten - der blutjungen, naiven und wunderschnen Fsun. Was als Affre begonnen hat, wchst sich bald zu einer Obsession aus, doch das hindert Kemal nicht daran, die Beziehung mit seiner Verlobten fortzufhren. Nach dem rauschenden Verlobungsfest lsst sich die Geliebte nicht mehr blicken. Verzweifelt erkennt Kemal, dass er Fsun ber alles liebt. Doch es ist zu spt. Der Nobelpreistrger Orhan Pamuk erzhlt in seinem groen Liebesroman von einer Gesellschaftsschicht der Trkei, die in vielem ganz und gar westlich...
Kemal, ein junger Mann aus der Oberschicht Istanbuls, verfllt der Liebe zu einer armen Verwandten - der blutjungen, naiven und wunderschnen Fsun. Was ...
Ein Fremder kommt nach Kars, eine trkische Provinzstadt, um eine merkwrdige Serie von Selbstmorden zu untersuchen: Junge Mdchen haben sich umgebracht, weil man sie zwang, das Kopftuch abzulegen. Pltzlich kommt es zu einem Putsch, inszeniert von einem Schauspieler. Ein Theatercoup? Doch es fliet echtes Blut, es intervenieren echte Soldaten, keiner kann die Stadt verlassen, weil es unaufhrlich schneit ... Ein aktueller Roman, in dessen Zentrum die Frage nach der Identitt der Trkei zwischen Verwestlichung und Islamismus steht.
Ein Fremder kommt nach Kars, eine trkische Provinzstadt, um eine merkwrdige Serie von Selbstmorden zu untersuchen: Junge Mdchen haben sich umgebracht,...
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels. In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller's famous distinction between "naive" writers--those who write spontaneously--and "sentimental" writers--those who are reflective and aware--Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the...
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels. In this fascinating set...
Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Orhan Pamuk's bestselling Istanbul: Memories of a City is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.Since the publication of Istanbul, Pamuk has continued to add to his collection of photographs of Istanbul.
Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Orhan Pamuk's bestselling Istanbul: Memories of a City is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibi...
