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Diverse reflections on life, art, and literature.
"Other Colors" invites you into the mind of a thinker who gracefully navigates through an array of subjects from the mundanity of daily life to the heights of literary criticism. The book’s meditative essays are interspersed with personal anecdotes, making it a rich tapestry woven from the threads of Orhan Pamuk's experiences. If you appreciate deep thought and eloquent prose, this collection will not just entertain but also illuminate and provoke contemplation long after you turn the final page.
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ISBN: 9780307266750
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2007-09-18
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.94
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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
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Diverse reflections on life, art, and literature.
"Other Colors" invites you into the mind of a thinker who gracefully navigates through an array of subjects from the mundanity of daily life to the heights of literary criticism. The book’s meditative essays are interspersed with personal anecdotes, making it a rich tapestry woven from the threads of Orhan Pamuk's experiences. If you appreciate deep thought and eloquent prose, this collection will not just entertain but also illuminate and provoke contemplation long after you turn the final page.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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