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Estambul. Ciudad Y Recuerdos / Istanbul: Memories and the City
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ISBN10: 8499080316
ISBN13: 9788499080314
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.03 Width: 4.89 Depth: 7.41
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9788499080314
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.03 Width: 4.89 Depth: 7.41
Language: Spanish
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 panorámico y en otras Ãntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografÃa, la del propio Orhan Pamuk. La historia da comienzo con el capÃtulo de su infancia, donde Pamuk nos habla sobre su excéntrica familia y su vida en un polvoriento apartamento -«los apartamentos Pamuk , asà los denomina- en el centro de la ciudad. El autor recuerda que fue en aquellos dÃas lejanos cuando tomó conciencia de que le habÃa tocado vivir en un espacio plagado de melancolÃa: 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 fantasmagóricas y callejuelas secretas donde, por encima de todo, destaca el terapéutico rÃo Bósforo, que en la memoria del narrador es vida, salud y felicidad. Esta elegÃa sirve para que el autor introduzca a pintores, escritores y célebres asesinos, a través 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 hüzün--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.
Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras Ãntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografÃa, la del propio Orhan Pamuk. La historia da comienzo con el capÃtulo de su infancia, donde Pamuk nos habla sobre su excéntrica familia y su vida en un polvoriento apartamento -«los apartamentos Pamuk , asà los denomina- en el centro de la ciudad. El autor recuerda que fue en aquellos dÃas lejanos cuando tomó conciencia de que le habÃa tocado vivir en un espacio plagado de melancolÃa: 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 fantasmagóricas y callejuelas secretas donde, por encima de todo, destaca el terapéutico rÃo Bósforo, que en la memoria del narrador es vida, salud y felicidad. Esta elegÃa sirve para que el autor introduzca a pintores, escritores y célebres asesinos, a través 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 hüzün--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.
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