Istanbul: Memories and the City 伊斯坦堡：一座城市的記憶
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Author: Orhan Pamuk
List Price: $14.95
Pages: 400
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint
edition
ISBN: 1400033888
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The author, born in 1952 into a rapidly fading bourgeois family in
Istanbul, spins a masterful tale, moving from his fractured extended
family, all living in a communal apartment building, out into the city and
encompassing the entire Ottoman Empire. Pamuk sees the slow collapse of
the once powerful empire hanging like a pall over the city and its
citizens. Central to many Istanbul residents' character is the concept of
hzn (melancholy). Istanbul's hzn, Pamuk writes, "is a way of looking at
life that... is ultimately as life affirming as it is negating." His world
apparently in permanent decline, Pamuk revels in the darkness and decay
manifest around him. He minutely describes horrific accidents on the
Bosphorus Strait and his own recurring fantasies of murder and mayhem.
Throughout, Pamuk details the breakdown of his family: elders die, his
parents fight and grow apart, and he must find his way in the world.
人一生當中至少都有一次反思，帶領我們檢視自己出生的環(huán)境，并反問自己：何以在這天出生在特定世界的一角？就在土耳其帝國瓦解、世界已然忘卻了它的存在之際，出生于伊斯坦堡，享譽國際的土耳其作家帕慕克開始領悟到這個貧窮、破敗、孤立、有如廢墟一般的城市，與自己的命運千絲萬縷的糾葛，因此決意重新爬梳文明古城的歷史，也以此對抗始終籠罩在這個城市的帝國斜陽的憂傷。他以獨特的歷史感與善于說故事的手法，透過優(yōu)美生動的文字，敘述自己重訪整個家族起落興衰的過程，在拼湊自己家族歷史的同時，也拼貼出形形色色、多彩多姿的當代伊斯坦堡風情。全書成功地結(jié)合了個人記憶與城市歷史文化，有如一部自傳性質(zhì)的城市傳記。
About Author
Orhan Pamuk is the
author of six novels and the recipient of major Turkish and international
literary awards. He is one of Europe's most prominent novelists, and his
work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in
Istanbul.
奧罕·帕慕克（Orhan
Pamuk），出生于伊斯坦堡，自一九七四年開始從事寫作，曾出版過《白色城堡》、《雪花》等多部作品，他的作品被評論為“當代小說中最新穎、最具原創(chuàng)之作”。其中《伊斯坦堡：一座城市的記憶》更為帕慕克獲得2005年諾貝爾文學獎提名的殊榮，并最終摘取了2006年諾貝爾文學大獎。
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