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Istanbul: Memories and the City Hardcover – Deckle Edge, June 7, 2005

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Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf (June 7, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400040957
ISBN-13: 978-1400040957
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.5 x 8.7 inches
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Average Customer Review: 168 customer reviews
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Carol Miller

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November 12, 2016

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans of good class made a mockery of the dandified women of native or mixed blood, who gussied up their clothes and assumed the airs of the foreigner or socialite. Cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada drew cartoons of them and published them in the local newspapers and prolific and irreverent painter Diego Rivera incorporated them into one of his signature murals, “Memories of a Sunday in the Alameda Park”. He gave them a name, “catrinas”, and they are still mocked, celebrated, even awarded prizes in costume competitions, during of the “Day of the Dead”, a uniquely Mexican festivity that blends the struggles and pretentions, the sympathy and aspirations, of the existing world, with the conflicts and longing of the departed, from their residence in the Underworld.
Something of this bleeds through Pamuk’s continually apologetic and ever dissatisfied view of the post-Ottoman Istanbul of his youth and yearnings, and a persistent conflict with the notions of “modernity” and “westernization”, as if these were some sort of extra-terrestrial invasion. His self-pity knows no end. How could “My Name is Red”, so brilliant, have emerged from the same pen as “Istanbul”, which instead of lauding a unique city, spends endless pages deploring the sights, sounds, scents and scenes that make it so remarkable. Am I just another Westerner, cradling my taste for the exotic? Forgive my outrage. Like India, or Mexico, or Uzbekistan, or Peru—you name it—this is not a world that was, it is a world that still is, but different. It changed. Everything changes. One century flows into another, conquests vanish in burocracy, pinnacles becomes nadirs, the unique degenerates, and when has it ever been different?
Our author, however, finally relents, if just a notch. He, and I, like Pierre Lotí in his time, find Eyüp enchanting. But then, I am a westerner, entranced by the charm of this distant neighborhood, nestled at the very end of the Golden Horn. Pamuk makes us feel guilty for even turning to look at it.

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A beautiful book

November 2, 2017

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The book's subtitle, Memories and the City, guided me through the chapters, many of which can stand alone, with themes that weave in and out. Pamuk questions his own memories from the beginning, with a kind of “double” in another house where he lived briefly as a child, and with his older brother sometimes questioning his accounts of the past. His portrayal of growing up in a family with three generations in one apartment, even as he escaped into make-believe and games, seems both straightforward and complicated at the same time.
Pamuk presents the City of Istanbul as seen through Western European photographs, paintings, and travel writings from the nineteenth century, and from Istanbul artists and writers, including journalists, a century later, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, as well as from his own experience of walking all over its different neighborhoods. He sees the neighborhoods falling into ruin, the mansions along the Bosphorus burning to the ground one after another, and his own family’s fortunes gradually crumbling. Against this decline and loss of pride, he sets his early love for painting, begun with a wish for praise and developing into joy of self-expression, and then reveals how he eventually chose to write instead.
This book is hard to read straight through because of all the interweaving ideas, stories, and themes. But various chapters, images and passages echo and invite rereading, and as I reread, I love the book more and more. I only wish I could enlarge some of the photographs to see them in more detail.

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David Holmes

June 29, 2014

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I visited Istanbul briefly recently without knowing what to expect. I was stunned by its beauty, history and allure. I came home wanting to know more. I could not have picked a better book than this one. Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's beautiful book, "Istanbul, Memories and the City", combines a bracing and poignant memoir of family and childhood with a fascinating, selective but quirky history of Istanbul. Known for his novels that speak to the tensions and opportunities of East meets West stories, that theme pervades this book also. I especially liked the chapters about Nerval, Gautier, and Flaubert's experiences in Istanbul in the 19th century. As a teenager Pamuk decided to paint and by the end of the book he has dropped out of college to "become an artist". In the last chapter his mother lectures him about the need to finish school and become an architect and the misery he will endure as an artist. He leaves the apartment angrily to walk the city's streets at night as he often does. In the last line of the book he decides not to become an artist but to become a writer! Can anyone relate? Beautifully illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings and with a wonderfully produced Audiobook narrated by John Lee (which I listened to as I read the Kindlebook). Read/listen to this book and go to Istanbul to see for yourself. I know I plan to return.

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