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2.0 out of 5 stars
A family album,
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This review is from: Other Colours (Paperback)
Of course, we appreciate Orhan Pamuk's defense of freedom of expression (`linked with pride and dignity') and his viewpoints on the Armenian genocide, the war in Iraq (`This savage, cruel war is the shame of America and the West') or the novel (`Novels are only valuable as the questions they raise about the shape and nature of life'). But, this book is not much more than a family album, irrelevant for outsiders.
Also, I don't agree with his vision on some of Dostoyevsky's books reviewed here. The theme in `Notes from the Underground' is not `the joys of degradation', but the, for Dostoyevsky, disasters of reason: `Consciousness only generates questions, never-ending doubt and torments until man lays on his deathbed. ... People should be stupid and act.' `The Demons' is in no way Dostoyevsky's most comic book. The first edition was heavily censored: the confession of pedophilia by the main character was left out. Scholars have pointed their finger (like the child in the book) at what could have been a Dostoyevskyan Lolita problem. Also, in `Winter Notes on Summer Impressions' the author meets in the London Haymarket a child of only six, black and blue beaten, barefoot, who tries to lure him to have sex with her. Nabokov's `Ada' is a direct confrontation with the `Viennese Delegation'. This book contains valuable information on the author's own novels. Only for Orhan Pamuk fans.
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