Other Colors: Essays and a Story
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In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.The Washington Post - Roger KaplanOther Colors is composed of shrewdly arranged occasional pieces, fragments from journals and other miscellany, edited and at times rewritten to form a remarkably cohesive picture of a literary man…By turns lyrical and reportorial, Pamuk shares insights gained from experiences that range from being a father to being indicted under the notorious Article 301 ("slandering Turkey") for remarks on the Armenian genocide and the Kurdish conflict…Beyond its clever charm and its wise observations, Other Voices is a plea to stand back and consider the historical and psychological causes of today's alarming headlines.
PrefaceLIVING AND WORRYING1. The Implied Author 2. My Father 3. Notes on April 29, 1994 4. Spring Afternoons 5. Dead Tired in the Evening 6. Out of Bed, in the Silence of Night 7. When the Furniture Is Talking, How Can You Sleep? 8. Giving Up Smoking 9. Seagull in the Rain 10. A Seagull Lies Dying on the Shore 11. To Be Happy 12. My Wristwatches 13. I’m Not Going to School 14. Rüya and Us 15. When Rüya Is Sad 16. The View 17. What I Know About Dogs 18. A Note on Poetic Justice 19. After the Storm 20. In This Place Long Ago 21. The House of the Man Who Has No One 22. Barbers 23. Fires and Ruins 24. Frankfurter 25. Bosphorus Ferries 26. The Islands 27. Earthquake 28. Earthquake Angst in Istanbul BOOKS AND READING29. How I Got Rid of Some of My Books 30. On Reading: Words or Images 31. The Pleasures of Reading 32. Nine Notes on Book Covers 33. To Read or Not to Read: The Thousand and One Nights 34. Foreword to Tristram Shandy:Everyone Should Have an Uncle Like This 35. Victor Hugo’s Passion for Greatness 36. Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground: The Joys of Degradation 37. Dostoyevsky’s Fearsome Demons 38. The Brothers Karamazov 39. Cruelty, Beauty, and Time: On Nabokov’s Ada and Lolita 40. Albert Camus 41. Reading Thomas Bernhard in a Time of Unhappiness 42. The World of Thomas Bernhard’s Novels 43. Mario Vargas Llosa and Third World Literature 44. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses and the Freedom of the Writer POLITICS, EUROPE, AND OTHER PROBLEMS OF BEING ONESELF45. PEN Arthur Miller Speech 46. No Entry 47. Where Is Europe? 48. A Guide to Being Mediterranean 49. My First Passport and Other European Journeys 50. André Gide 51. Family Meals and Politics on Religious Holidays 52. The Anger of the Damned 53. Traffic and Religion 54. In Kars and Frankfurt 55. On Trial 56. Who Do You Write For? MY BOOKS ARE MY LIFE57. The White Castle Afterword 58. The Black Book: Ten Years On 59. A Selection from Interviews on The New Life 60. A Selection from Interviews on My Name Is Red 61. On My Name Is Red 62. From the Snow in Kars Notebooks PICTURES AND TEXTS63. Sirin’s Surprise 64. In the Forest and as Old as the World 65. Murders by Unknown Assailants and Detective Novels 66. Entr’acte; or, Ah, Cleopatra! 67. Why Didn’t I Become an Architect? 68. Selimiye Mosque 69. Bellini and the East 70. Black Pen 71. Meaning OTHER CITIES, OTHER CIVILIZATIONS72. My First Encounters with Americans 73. Views from the Capital of the World THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEW TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW MY FATHER’S SUITCASE Index
