Orhan Pamuk

The streetscapes of Istanbul as photographed by Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk in an exquisitely printed clothbound editionThe dominant color in Orhan Pamuk's new book of photographs is orange. When the Nobel-Prize-winning novelist is finished with the day's writing, he takes his camera and wanders through Istanbul's various neighborhoods, visiting the backstreets of his town, areas without tourists, spaces that seem neglected and forgotten, spaces with a particular light. This is the orange light of Istanbul's windows and streetlamps that Pamuk knows so well from his childhood--from the Istanbul of 50 years ago, as he mentions in his introduction.But Pamuk also observes that the homely, cosy orange light is slowly being replaced by a new, bright and icy white light from new lightbulbs. His photographs from the backstreets of Istanbul record and preserve the cosy effect of this old, disappearing orange light, as well as the recognition of this new white vision.Whether reflected in well-trodden snow, concentrated as a glaring ball atop a lamppost or subtly present as a diffuse haze, orange literally and aesthetically gives shape to Pamuk's pictures, which reveal to us the unseen corners of his home city.

Niko Pirosmanashvili comprehensively tells the story of the life and work of elusive Georgian painter Niko Pirosmanashvili (c.1866-1918), popularly known as Pirosmani, during one of the most interesting epochs in the history of Georgia. Key essays, both recollections by those who knew him and contemporary scholarship, explore his life as an impoverished artist living in Tbilisi. Charting his influence on the Georgian and Russian avant-gardists to the Modernists, including Picasso, and the parallels Pirosmani holds with Henri Rousseau and Vincent van Gogh, the artist's wider cultural impact is also examined from Georgian and international perspectives, past and present. Illustrations of Pirosmani's artwork, alongside a wealth of photographs from Georgia from the beginning of the twentieth century, make this a richly visual resource. With a foreword by Orhan Pamuk, this evocative book is the result of a meticulous process of assemblage by two artists dedicated to broadening Pirosmanashvili’s legacy and has been in formation for almost fifty years.

Istanbul panoramas from the author of My Name Is RedIn the winter of 2011 Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and European sides of the city, the surrounding hills and the distant islands and mountains. Sometimes he would leave his writing desk and follow the movements of the boats as they passed in front of his apartment and sailed away.Pamuk has been taking photographs for more than 50 years, but as he obsessively created these images he felt his desire to do so was related to a strange particular mood he was experiencing. He photographed further and began to think about what was happening to himself: why was he taking these photos? How are seeing and photography related? What is the affinity between writing and seeing? Balkon presents almost 500 of these photos selected by Pamuk, who has also codesigned the book and written its introduction.Born in Istanbul in 1952, Orhan Pamuk intended until the age of 22 to be a painter. In the 1960s and '70s, as he describes in his book of autobiographical essays Istanbul (2003), he photographed the streets of Istanbul to use in his paintings; his early desire to take photos is explored in the introduction to the illustrated version of Istanbul (2017). Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006; among his best-known novels are My Name Is Red (1998), Snow (2004) and The Red-Haired Woman (2016). His 2008 novel, The Museum of Innocence, became an actual museum, which he opened in Istanbul in 2012 to exhibit the objects, pictures, papers and photographs described in the story. The Museum of Innocence received the European Museum of the Year Award in 2014.

One of the Nobel Prize winner's best-loved novels, in a special edition featuring an introduction by the author and a chronology of Islamic and Western art history that provides additional context for this dazzling story of a murdered artist in sixteenth-century Istanbul. Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red, set amid the artistic splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, is a fantastical story of love and murder propelled by the philosophical puzzle at its core. The Ottoman sultan has commissioned the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm--but he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Because there are those who believe art that imitates the real is an affront to Islam, the project must be kept secret. Panic and scandal erupt when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears, along with a crucial page of the manuscript. the surviving artists--bitter rivals variously motivated by pride, greed, faith, and love--are all under suspicion of murder, and the only clue to the mystery lies in the half-finished illustrations themselves.

Nobel-voittajan omin maalauksin kuvitetut päiväkirjat! Pamukin muistiinpanot avaavat oven kirjailijan kiehtovaan sisäiseen maailmaan ja ajatuksiin taiteesta, kulttuurista ja poliittisista jännitteistä, jotka ovat vaikuttaneet hänen kirjojensa syntyyn. Pamuk kirjoitti ja kuvitti havaintojaan ja pohdintojaan muistikirjoihinsa päivittäin yli vuosikymmenen ajan. Nyt ne julkaistaan suomeksi yksissä kansissa upeana neliväriteoksena. Ne kertovat hänen matkoistaan, perheestään ja kirjoitusprosessistaan sekä mutkikkaasta suhteesta kotimaahansa Turkkiin. Lukija kutsutaan Pamukin maailmaan näkemään, mistä rakastettu, palkittu kirjailija on ammentanut inspiraatiota tarinoidensa juoniin ja henkilöihin, ja seuraamaan tekstin ja kuvien soljuvaa vuoropuhelua. ”Tässä väärennösten täyttämässä maailmassa, jossa usko kirjallisuuteen uhkaa joskus loppua, Pamuk on aito ja tosi.” - Savkar Altinel, The Observer ”Intiimi kokoelma paljastavia tuokioita kirjailijan työstä ja elämästä. - - Vaikka Pamuk luopui kuvataiteesta kirjoittaakseen, hän nauttii William Blaken tavoin niiden yhdistämisestä. - - Joidenkin kuvien vaaleanpunaisen, vihreän ja keltaisen sävyistä tulee mieleen Matisse. Pamuk vangitsee salaperäiset tummat merimaisemat mustan ja harmaan nopein vedoin; joissain kuvista hän yrittää välittää katsojalle uniensa maailman.” - Kirkus Reviews Orhan Pamuk on Turkin merkittävin ja kansainvälisesti tunnetuin nykykirjailija. Häntä kiitetään erityisesti idän ja lännen ristiriitojen kuvaamisesta ja ainutlaatuisesta kyvystä rakentaa siltoja kulttuurien välille. Pamukin teokset ovat olleet suuria myyntimenestyksiä hänen kotimaassaan ja niitä on käännetty 63 kielelle. Time-lehti valitsi vuonna 1999 Pamukin yhdeksi 14 eurooppalaisesta, joiden uudenlainen ajattelu näyttää maanosalle tietä uudelle vuosituhannelle.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 25th ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION HARDBACK 'An extraordinary achievement.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Fabulously rich, highly compelling.' INDEPENDENT 'Chock-full of sublimity and sin.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Wonderful, dreamy, passionate and august.' SPECTATOR In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. At a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Even the illustrious circle of artists are not allowed to know for whom they are working. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their Master has to seek outside help. Did the dead painter fall victim to professional rivalry, romantic jealousy or religious terror? With the Sultan demanding an answer within three days, perhaps the clue lies somewhere in the half-finished pictures. Orhan Pamuk is one of the world's leading contemporary novelists and in My Name is Red, he fashioned an unforgettable tale of suspense, and an artful meditation on love and deception.

El hermoso retrato de una ciudad y de una vida -la ciudad de Estambul y vida del Premio Nobel de Literatura Orhan Pamuk-, ambas fascinantes por igual. Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panor mico y en otras ntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades m s fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es tambi n una autobiograf a, la del propio Orhan Pamuk. La historia da comienzo con el cap tulo de su infancia, donde Pamuk nos habla sobre su exc ntrica familia y su vida en un polvoriento apartamento -«los apartamentos Pamuk , as los denomina- en el centro de la ciudad. El autor recuerda que fue en aquellos d as lejanos cuando tom conciencia de que le hab a tocado vivir en un espacio plagado de melancol a: residente de un lugar en ruinas que arrastra un pasado glorioso y que intenta hacerse un hueco en la «modernidad . Viejos y hermosos edificios en ruinas, estatuas valiosas y mutantes, villas fantasmag ricas y callejuelas secretas donde, por encima de todo, destaca el terap utico r o B sforo, que en la memoria del narrador es vida, salud y felicidad. Esta eleg a sirve para que el autor introduzca a pintores, escritores y c lebres asesinos, a trav s de cuyos ojos el narrador describe la ciudad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. "Delightful, profound, marvelously original.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." --The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy--or h z n--that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters--both Turkish and foreign--who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

Chetyrem masteram persidskoj miniatjury porucheno proilljustrirovat tajnuju knigu dlja sultana, daby imja ego i dejanija obreli bessmertie i slavu v vekakh. Odnako po gorodu khodjat slukhi, chto kniga protivorechit zakonam musulmanskogo mira, chto sdelana ona po printsipam venetsianskikh bezbozhnikov i neostorozhnyj svidetel, osmelivshijsja vzgljanut na zapretnye stranitsy, neminuemo oslepnet. Posle zhestokogo ubijstva odnogo iz khudozhnikov stanovitsja jasno, chto prodolzhat rabotu nad zakazom sultana - smertelno opasno, a lichnost ubijtsy mozhno ustanovit, lish vnimatelno vsmotrevshis v zamyslovatye linii zagadochnogo risunka..."Imja mne - Krasnyj" - samyj populjarnyj roman Orkhana Pamuka, izvestnejshego turetskogo pisatelja, laureata Nobelevskoj premii po literature.

"Dalekie gory i vospominanija" - prekrasnyj podarok dlja poklonnikov tvorchestva samogo izvestnogo turetskogo pisatelja, laureata Nobelevskoj premii Orkhana Pamuka, avtora romanov "Muzej Nevinnosti", "Imja mne - Krasnyj", "Stambul. Gorod vospominanij" i drugikh.Na protjazhenii mnogikh let Pamuk zapisyval v tetradjakh nebolshogo formata interesnye nabljudenija, mysli, obrazy, vospominanija... Eti zapisi soprovozhdalis krasochnymi risunkami, kak pravilo raznoobraznymi pejzazhami, sredi kotorykh pisatelju prikhodilos zhit. Po slovam Pamuka, "gljadja na pejzazh - na ljuboj krasivyj pejzazh, - my ujasnjaem sobstvennoe mesto v mire. Nam by khotelos stat takimi zhe prostornymi, spokojnymi, krasivymi, kak vid, predstajuschij nashim glazam".Zapisnye knizhki Orkhana Pamuka ne tolko pozvoljajut prikosnutsja k vnutrennemu miru ljubimogo pisatelja, no i javljajutsja podlinnym proizvedeniem iskusstva, gde risunok i tekst neotdelimy drug ot druga, kak neotdelimy chelovek i ego vospominanija.Vpervye na russkom!

Viattomuuden museo on riipaiseva rakkaustarina, ja samalla yksityiskohtainen, elävä kuvaus viime vuosisadan lopun Istanbulista. Kemal on kolmekymppinen istanbulilainen poikamies, jonka elämä tuntuu olevan pelkkää päivänpaistetta: hänellä on hyväpalkkainen työ sukuyrityksen johtajana, laaja ystäväpiiri sekä kaunis ja sivistynyt rakastettu Sibel, josta on pian tuleva hänen kihlattunsa. Eräänä päivänä Kemal näkee boutiquen ikkunassa käsilaukun, jota Sibel on ihastellut, ja päättää mennä ostamaan sen. Liikkeessä työskentelee Kemalin kaukainen sukulainen, 18-vuotias Füsun, ja hänet nähtyään Kemal menettää mielenrauhansa. Heidän välilleen syntyy kiihkeä rakkaussuhde, joka kestää Kemalin ja Sibelin kihlajaisiin saakka. Seuraavana päivänä Füsun katoaa. Iltapäivänä toisensa jälkeen Kemal lähtee töistä, menee asuntoon, jossa hän on tapaillut Füsunia, odottaa tätä turhaan ja etsii lohtua Füsuniin liittyvistä esineistä. Samalla hän yrittää jatkaa tulevaisuuden rakentamista Sibelin kanssa. Lopulta Kemal löytää Füsunin, joka on muuttanut vanhempiensa ja aviomiehensä Feridunin kanssa Beyoglun syrjäkulmille. Kemal ottaa tavakseen vierailla heidän luonaan, niin että hän voi katsella rakastettuaan ja kerätä lisää esineitä muistoksi tästä. Vähitellen esinekokoelmasta muodostuu hänen rakkautensa museo. ORHAN PAMUK (s. 1952) kuuluu Turkin merkittävimpiin nykykirjailijoihin. Pamuk on saanut lukuisia kansainvälisiä kirjallisuuspalkintoja, mm. kirjallisuuden Nobel-palkinnon vuonna 2006. Hänen teoksiaan on käännetty 40 kielelle. Viattomuuden museo on kahdeksas suomeksi ilmestynyt Pamukin teos.

V Muzee Nevinnosti sobrany predmety, kotorye sposobny rasskazat svoju osobuju istoriju: korobok spichek, karmannyj fonarik, poterjannaja serezhka... Prokhodja po ego zalam, chitatel nezametno pogruzhaetsja v atmosferu ljubvi i pechali, stol kharakternuju dlja tvorchestva Orkhana Pamuka. V osnovu ego romana "Muzej Nevinnosti" polozhena istorija otnoshenij mezhdu otpryskom sostojatelnoj semi, stojaschim na poroge vygodnoj pomolvki, i neozhidanno vstrechennoj im podrugoj detstva; istorija, berezhno khranimaja v osobom muzee, sozdannom "ne dlja togo, chtoby khodit po nemu i smotret na veschi, a dlja togo, chtoby chuvstvovat i zhit".

Snö är en politisk roman med stor giltighet i dagens Turkiet. Romanen utspelas vintern -92 i staden Kars, längst öster ut, nära gränsen till Armenien. Hit kommer Ka, poet med tolv år i exil i Tyskland i bagaget. Egentligen har han kommit för att slå sig ner i barndomsstaden Istanbul men det som lockar med resan till Kars är dels förhoppningen att återse en tidigare flickvän, dels ett uppdrag att för en tidning skildra den våg av självmord som begåtts av unga kvinnor i staden. Tar de livet av sig av politiska skäl? Har det med islamisternas framväxt att göra? Kars drabbas under hans besök av ett våldsamt snöfall och staden skärs av från omvärlden. Under tiden i staden kommer Ka i kontakt med alla de viktigaste politiska grupperingarna och institutionerna i dagens Turkiet: regeringsorganen, militären, islamisterna, kurderna, gammal och ny vänster. Snö griper rätt in i en politisk diskussion som berör så många fler än turkarna nu sedan Turkiet på allvar söker sig en roll i Europa. Vad är egentligen Turkiet för ett land? Kan vi i väst förstå turkarna? Förstår man i Istanbul vad som händer i Kars? Romanen blev en oerhörd framgång i Turkiet och den utsågs i fjol, när den kom i engelsk översättning, av New York Times till en av de 10 främsta böckerna det året.

V svoem izjaschnom romane "Ryzhevolosaja Zhenschina" Orkhan Pamuk rasskazyvaet istoriju ljubvi junogo stambulskogo litseista i aktrisy brodjachego teatra, kotoraja kazhduju noch rasskazyvaet nemnogochislennoj publike starinnye skazki i predanija. Vpervye poznav opjanenie strastju, revnost, oschuschenie svobody i otvetstvennosti, Dzhem Chelik proneset eti chuvstva cherez vsju zhizn, chtoby cherez tridtsat let vnov vstretitsja so svoim proshlym litsom k litsu...

Orkhan Pamuk - izvestnyj turetskij pisatel, laureat Nobelevskoj premii po literature 2006 goda, avtor knig "Imja mne - Krasnyj", "Sneg", "Stambul. Gorod vospominanij", "Muzej Nevinnosti" i mnogikh drugikh.V knige "Naivnyj i sentimentalnyj pisatel", sozdannoj na osnove garvardskikh lektsij, Pamuk priglashaet chitatelja v mir svoikh ljubimykh romanov, chtoby popytatsja raskryt tajnu neprekhodjaschego ocharovanija podlinnoj literatury. Pamuk predlagaet razdelit pisatelej (i chitatelej) na dve kategorii: "naivnykh" (sposobnykh pogruzitsja v tekst s golovoj, bez ogljadki na tekhniku pisma i lichnost avtora) i "sentimentalnykh" (vdumchivykh, reflektirujuschikh, nedoverchivykh). "Nas zhdut pisatel i ego geroi, ponjatija vymysla i sjuzheta, voprosy o tom, chto takoe vremja i chto znachit "videt"; my pobyvaem v muzejakh i, mozhet byt, kak sluchaetsja v nastojaschikh romanakh, okazhemsja v udivitelnykh mestakh, o suschestvovanii kotorykh i ne dogadyvalis".Vpervye na russkom!

Orkhan Pamuk - izvestnyj turetskij pisatel, obladatel mnogochislennykh natsionalnykh i mezhdunarodnykh premij, v chisle kotorykh Nobelevskaja premija po literature za "poisk dushi svoego melankholicheskogo goroda". V samom dele, dejstvie pochti vsekh romanov pisatelja proiskhodit v Stambule, gorode zagadochnom i prekrasnom, perezhivshem vysochajshij rastsvet i pechalnye sumerki upadka. Odnako esli v drugikh proizvedenijakh gorod iskusno prjachetsja pozadi sobytij, predstavaja v kachestve podkhodjaschej dekoratsii, to v svoej knige "Stambul. Gorod vospominanij" Pamuk otvodit emu rol glavnogo geroja. Rasskazyvaja o svoem detstve i junosti, pisatel raskryvaet pered nami Stambul, kak tajnu, kotoruju stoit uznat i poljubit.

Orkhan Pamuk - izvestnyj turetskij pisatel, obladatel mnogochislennykh natsionalnykh i mezhdunarodnykh premij, v chisle kotorykh Nobelevskaja premija po literature za "poisk dushi svoego melankholicheskogo goroda". V osnovu ego romana "Muzej Nevinnosti" polozhena istorija ljubvi mezhdu otpryskom sostojatelnoj semi, stojaschim na poroge vygodnoj pomolvki, i neozhidanno vstrechennoj im podrugoj detstva; istorija, berezhno khranimaja v osobom muzee, sozdannom "ne dlja togo, chtoby khodit po nemu i smotret na veschi, a dlja togo, chtoby chuvstvovat i zhit".

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE'One of the world's finest living writers.' Independent'In this world of forgeries, where some might be in danger of losing their faith in literature, Pamuk is the real thing.' Savkar Altinel, Observer'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.' Daily TelegraphEvery day for over a decade, Orhan Pamuk has written and drawn in his notebooks. Translated into English for the first time, these stunning snapshots of his life and creative process are a wonderful accompaniment to his bestselling works of fiction.They include daily events and reflections, dialogues with his imagined characters, notes on his works-in-progress, his experience of writer's block and the unfolding of his difficulties with the current Turkish government. Each entry is illustrated in the author's uniquely idiosyncratic and charming style.

The journals of the Nobel Prize-winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. He writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey. He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters and the plots of his stories. Intertwined in his writings are the vibrant paintings of the landscapes that surround and inspire him. A beautiful object in its own right, in Memories of Distant Mountains readers can explore Pamuk's intoxicating inner world and can have a fascinating, intimate encounter with the art, culture, and charged political currents that have shaped one of literature's most important voices.