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Life Into Literature: Orhan Pamuk in His Works
Local feelings in Turkey are different about Orhan Pamuk and his works. Some say that Pamuk is not even a good writer and what he says is overwhelmingly interesting in other languages when it is dark and boring in Turkish. Others say Pamuk's writing offended Turks and made harms for Turkey. But Pamuk is a historian and his novels are full of political, cultural, and religious struggles of Westernization and Islamization. He is a well-selected author to remove doubt in defining a new Turkish literary precedent.
Life into literature: Orhan Pamuk in his works as a biographical study explores how Western-style writer, Orhan Pamuk and his fictions such as The White Castle, The Black Book, My Name is Red, Snow, and A Strangeness in My Mind, and his non-fiction such as Istanbul and Other Colours, demonstrate Pamuk's life experiences. Besides, this critical work shows how these works have unwittingly been influenced by his family, relatives and friends.
Life into literature: Orhan Pamuk in his works as a biographical study explores how Western-style writer, Orhan Pamuk and his fictions such as The White Castle, The Black Book, My Name is Red, Snow, and A Strangeness in My Mind, and his non-fiction such as Istanbul and Other Colours, demonstrate Pamuk's life experiences. Besides, this critical work shows how these works have unwittingly been influenced by his family, relatives and friends.
90 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2017
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December 6, 2019
As a fan of Orhan Pamuk and his works I grabbed this book off the shelf in an Istanbul D&R branch. I noticed the small size of the book which offered various details on Orhan Pamuk life and various works.
The author mentioned in the book preface that the book was a biographical study on the relationship between Orhan Pamuk, his life , and his works.
I believe he managed to do that giving the reader sort of a chronology starting from the 1950s ending in the 2010s. Starting from his birth 1952 with a briefing on his paternal/maternal families. Going through his childhood and education finally reaching his career and then International fame.
In all, the author shares many personal details/views of Orhan Pamuk with a good attempt of linking it to his various works.
The book gave me some interesting insights on one of my favorite authors as well as giving me sort of a refreshing and perspective of his books which I have already read in the past.
The book I believe is a good effort by the author gathering and linking a good deal of information in a book of such small size.
But, unfortunately I believe this could have been a better book had it received a proper editing especially regarding accuracy of information in some cases and arranging the material which could cause a reader who is not an Orhan Pamuk fan to consider it dry or boring.
The author mentioned in the book preface that the book was a biographical study on the relationship between Orhan Pamuk, his life , and his works.
I believe he managed to do that giving the reader sort of a chronology starting from the 1950s ending in the 2010s. Starting from his birth 1952 with a briefing on his paternal/maternal families. Going through his childhood and education finally reaching his career and then International fame.
In all, the author shares many personal details/views of Orhan Pamuk with a good attempt of linking it to his various works.
The book gave me some interesting insights on one of my favorite authors as well as giving me sort of a refreshing and perspective of his books which I have already read in the past.
The book I believe is a good effort by the author gathering and linking a good deal of information in a book of such small size.
But, unfortunately I believe this could have been a better book had it received a proper editing especially regarding accuracy of information in some cases and arranging the material which could cause a reader who is not an Orhan Pamuk fan to consider it dry or boring.
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