Other Colours. Other Colours. Essays and a Story. Writings on Life, Art, Books and Cities. - Orhan Pamuk
essays and a story
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From Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, and author of My Name is Red and Istanbul, comes a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value. His original pieces have been sympathetically revisited by the author, and the result is a new work of great narrative richness and intensity. Other Colours ranges from lyrical autobiography to essays on literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. Reflections on Pamuk's first passport, his first trip to Europe, his father's death, his political views, his recent court case, and the Istanbul earthquake share space with a collection of pieces on writers as various as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Nabokov and Mario Vargas Llosa. There are sections on Istanbul, New York - where Pamuk lived for two years - and on the writing of each of his novels. Interspersed among these are some of Pamuk's own illus...
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2007Uitgever: Faber and Faber433 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0571236863ISBN-13: 9780571236862Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's white paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, thick 8vo: xij, 434pp.,73 essays, 3 stories, table of contents, index. Fine copy. London, Faber & Faber Ltd. 2007 [Auteur: PAMUK, ORHAN] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Other Colours. Other Colours. Essays and a Story. Writings on Life, Art, Books and Cities.]
