{"id":371,"date":"2020-11-16T21:39:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-11-16T22:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:27:39","slug":"someone-who-likes-writing-orhan-pamuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mozartcultures.com\/en\/someone-who-likes-writing-orhan-pamuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Who Likes Writing: Orhan Pamuk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orhan Pamuk <\/b>\u00a0is a Turkish\u00a0novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006\u00a0Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey’s most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country’s best-selling writer.<\/p>\n

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Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a large family similar to those which he describes in his novels\u00a0<\/span>Cevdet Bey and His Sons<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>The Black Book<\/span><\/em>, in the wealthy westernized district of Nisantasi. As he writes in his autobiographical book\u00a0<\/span>Istanbul<\/span><\/em>, from his childhood until the age of 22, he devoted himself mainly to painting and dreamed of becoming an artist. After graduating from the American Robert College in Istanbul, he studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University for three years. Still, he abandoned the course when he aspired to become an architect and artist. He went on to graduate in journalism from Istanbul University but never worked as a journalist. At the age of 23, Pamuk decided to become a novelist, and giving up everything else, retreated into his flat and began to write.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Orhan Pamuk pays more attention to detail than the story. The depictions of space together are quite right; the reason for this must be that he studied architecture. It adds richness to fiction with its fragmentary narrative technique in novel storytelling; this is due to the narrator changing in each episode. He also conveys the event with leaps in time and space, so the reader gets rid of the novel’s fiction’s passive situation. I can say that the fact that he is a contemporary novelist is due to this style. We can also see this technique that he uses to see in many films, for example, Pulp Fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10 Notable Novels by Orhan Pamuk<\/h3>\n

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THE BLACK BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a snowy winter day in Istanbul, Galip starts looking for R\u00fcya who is his childhood love, friend, daughter of his uncle, his sweetheart, and lost wife. As the reader follows Galip\u2019s investigations and people he meets in Istanbul that\u2019s full of signs of a mysterious world, meanwhile he\/she is introduced to some lines of columnist Celal who combines those investigations with interesting signs and strange stories. This investigation carries Galip to R\u00fcya as well as to the mysterious enigma our lives are sunk into.<\/p>\n

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CEVDET BEY AND HIS SONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story of a small shop owner in Abdulhamid\u2019s last years and one of the first Muslim merchants Cevdet Bey and his sons covers three generations from the beginning of the century to the present day, and it\u2019s also the story of Turkish Republic\u2019s private life. Through the adventures of a family which lives in Nisantasi, it looks into the indoor lifestyles, the new life in apartments, big families that are becoming westernized, going shopping in Beyoglu, listening to radio on Sunday afternoons…<\/p>\n

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THE HOUSE OF SILENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

One historian, one revolutionist and another one eager to be rich\u2026 These three visit their grandmother and stay for a week in the house which is built by their grandfather when he was sent to exile 70 years ago.\u00a0While the grandmother\u2019s memories are being slowly opened partway, they remember the grandfather writing an encyclopedia hoping that it would close the gap between the East and the West. As bridges are built between the generations, there are others behind the walls. Orhan Pamuk\u2019s second novel.<\/p>\n

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THE WHITE CASTLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Venetian serf captured by Turkish pirates who believes he is good at astronomy, physics and art\u2026 A Turkish master who shares the same interests and wants to learn the Western science\u2026 The stories and adventures of these two sharing strange similarities, brings them to Istanbul\u2019s streets where plague is epidemic, to the fictional world of the Child Sultan, to the formation of an incredible weapon and to the question of \u2018why am I me?\u2019.<\/p>\n

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THE NEW LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018One day I had read a book and all my life has changed.\u2019\u2019 This is a novel about books and their magical effects which change our lives. The character who devotes his whole life to the light spurted from the book he reads, runs after the new life the book promises, enters into another life passing through doors which open out on the one hand into the Life\u2019s, the Unique Moments\u2019, the Death\u2019s,<\/p>\n

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the Writing\u2019s, the Accident\u2019s secrets and on the other into the childhood, comic books, the appearance and disappearance of an angel, to Dante and to Rilke.<\/p>\n

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MY NAME IS RED<\/strong><\/p>\n

My Name Is Red<\/em>\u00a0about which Orhan Pamuk says \u201cit\u2019s my most colorful and optimistic novel\u201d, covers nine snowy days of Istanbul in 1591. When \u015eek\u00fcre, a beautiful lady with ceaselessly fighting two sons, decides to look for a new husband, a new lover in place of her husband who didn\u2019t come back from the war since four years, she watches secretly from where she hides the palace muralists her father invites by one by. The proficient muralists coming to their house are painting dangerous figures which convey European influences under the supervision of her father for a secret book, with the order of Ottoman Sultan. When one of them gets killed\u2026The novel in which everyone speaks with their own voice, even dead people and furniture start to talk, is about death, art, love, marriage and happiness as well as a requiem for the forgotten beauties of pictorial art.<\/p>\n

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SNOW<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the fourth day after his return to Turkey, Ka, a Turkish poet who has been an exile in Germany since twelve years, finds himself in the city of Kars for an interview. Walking under the slow and ceaseless snow, street by street, store by store, he tries to get to know this melancholic and beautiful city and its people. In Kars there are teahouses full of unemployed people, a snowbound traveling theatrical company, girls who protest and commit suicide for the headscarf banning, various political groups, gossips, rumors, Karpalas Hotel and its owner Turgut Bey, his daughters \u0130pek and Kadife and a promise of love and happiness for Ka.<\/p>\n

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MEMORIES AND THE CITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Orhan Pamuk presents the reader the interesting story of the city of Istanbul\u00a0he\u00a0<\/em>knows in a novel form, combining it with his own life story until the age of 22. This story, heads from Pamuk\u2019s first feelings related to \u2018his own\u2019 to his mother, his father and his family, and as a source of happiness and sadness, opens out to the streets of Istanbul. As we discover Istanbul\u2019s streets in 1950s, the roads with cobblestones, ruined blasted wooden mansions, the difficulties of the disappearance of an old culture while a new culture rises out of the ashes and shambles of it, we can follow swiftly the evolution of Pamuk\u2019s spiritual world as if we\u2019re reading a detective novel. In this unique piece that searches Istanbul\u2019s black-white melancholy, we find the unity of soul and emotions special to some books which we read time after time.<\/p>\n

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MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the happiest moment of my life, I didn\u2019t know. Orhan Pamuk\u2019s recent novel the\u00a0Museum of Innocence<\/em>\u00a0on which he has been working for six years begins with these words\u2026 This colorful and fabulous novel will not only challenge the reader\u2019s thoughts about love, but also those about marriage, sex, passion, family, friendship, and happiness. The book tells the story of Kemal, son of a wealthy Istanbulite family, and his poor and distant relative F\u00fcsun, starting in 1975 and continuing up to the present. Beyond a fascinating and unforgettable love story told with an abundance of characters and incidents revealing the human soul\u2019s depths, the reader will also enjoy details about Turkey\u2019s social and cultural history in the past decades as well as the beauties of the author\u2019s native city Istanbul on the background\u2026<\/p>\n

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A STRANGENESS IN MY MIND<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA STRANGENESS IN MY MIND\u201d, Orhan Pamuk\u2019s ninth novel, is both an unforgettable love story and a modern epic.<\/p>\n

Mevlut Karata\u015f, the novel\u2019s hero, is a street vendor who sells\u00a0boza<\/em>, a traditional Turkish beverage. The novel follows the love story between Mevlut and his girlfriend whom he wrote letters for three years, as well as Mevlut\u2019s life in the streets of Istanbul throughout a period that spans over four decades, from 1969 to 2012, during which Mevlut works in a range of different jobs by day and sells\u00a0boza<\/em>\u00a0during winter nights. Throughout these decades, Mevlut witnesses the various transformations the city, the people and Turkey in general undergo. All the while, Mevlut often wonders what the source of this \u201cstrangeness\u201d in his mind is \u2013 a strangeness that makes him different from all the others.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Strangeness in My Mind\u201d, a story told from the perspectives of various characters, is destined to be one of the most widely read novels of Pamuk, as well as one of his greatest achievements.<\/p>\n

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