- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; 1st Edition edition (6 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571236863
- ISBN-13: 978-0571236862
- Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 3.7 x 24.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 667,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Pamuk is that rarest of creatures, a fabulist of ideas...In "Other Colors,.".Pamuk gives us several of his many selves in a centrifugal gathering of memory-pieces, sketches, interviews and unexpected flights...[that] feel more like a rich and suggestive set of explorations...His books are, really celebrations of multiplicity...the mysteries they set up are always more delicious than any attempt to solve them...Yet mostly what this collection gives us...is a chance to savor one of the inimitable literary storytellers of our time...Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive."
- Pico Iyer, "New York Times Book Review"
"He is the poet of the labyrinth of his own thoughts and conceits, of the fabulous and the gently ambiguous."
- Colin Thubron, "The New York Review"
"what emerges...is a voice, part playful and part deadly, whose refracted reality a real nightingale might envy."
- Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
""Other 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...Beyond its clever charm and its wise observations "Other Colors" is a plea to stand back and consider the historical and psychological causes of today's alarming headlines."
- Roger Kaplan, "Washington Post Book World"
- Pico Iyer, "New York Times Book Review"
"He is the poet of the labyrinth of his own thoughts and conceits, of the fabulous and the gently ambiguous."
- Colin Thubron, "The New York Review"
"what emerges...is a voice, part playful and part deadly, whose refracted reality a real nightingale might envy."
- Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
""Other 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...Beyond its clever charm and its wise observations "Other Colors" is a plea to stand back and consider the historical and psychological causes of today's alarming headlines."
- Roger Kaplan, "Washington Post Book World"
"From the Hardcover edition."
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A new collection from the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Of course, we appreciate Orhan Pamuk's defense of freedom of expression (`linked with pride and dignity') and his viewpoints on the Armenian genocide, the war in Iraq (`This savage, cruel war is the shame of America and the West') or the novel (`Novels are only valuable as the questions they raise about the shape and nature of life'). But, this book is not much more than a family album, irrelevant for outsiders.
Also, I don't agree with his vision on some of Dostoyevsky's books reviewed here.
The theme in `Notes from the Underground' is not `the joys of degradation', but the, for Dostoyevsky, disasters of reason: `Consciousness only generates questions, never-ending doubt and torments until man lays on his deathbed. ... People should be stupid and act.'
`The Demons' is in no way Dostoyevsky's most comic book. The first edition was heavily censored: the confession of pedophilia by the main character was left out.
Scholars have pointed their finger (like the child in the book) at what could have been a Dostoyevskyan Lolita problem. Also, in `Winter Notes on Summer Impressions' the author meets in the London Haymarket a child of only six, black and blue beaten, barefoot, who tries to lure him to have sex with her.
Nabokov's `Ada' is a direct confrontation with the `Viennese Delegation'.
This book contains valuable information on the author's own novels.
Only for Orhan Pamuk fans.
Also, I don't agree with his vision on some of Dostoyevsky's books reviewed here.
The theme in `Notes from the Underground' is not `the joys of degradation', but the, for Dostoyevsky, disasters of reason: `Consciousness only generates questions, never-ending doubt and torments until man lays on his deathbed. ... People should be stupid and act.'
`The Demons' is in no way Dostoyevsky's most comic book. The first edition was heavily censored: the confession of pedophilia by the main character was left out.
Scholars have pointed their finger (like the child in the book) at what could have been a Dostoyevskyan Lolita problem. Also, in `Winter Notes on Summer Impressions' the author meets in the London Haymarket a child of only six, black and blue beaten, barefoot, who tries to lure him to have sex with her.
Nabokov's `Ada' is a direct confrontation with the `Viennese Delegation'.
This book contains valuable information on the author's own novels.
Only for Orhan Pamuk fans.
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A family album
4 Dec 2009
Format:Paperback
Of course, we appreciate Orhan Pamuk's defense of freedom of expression (`linked with pride and dignity') and his viewpoints on the Armenian genocide, the war in Iraq (`This savage, cruel war is the shame of America and the West') or the novel (`Novels are only valuable as the questions they raise about the shape and nature of life'). But, this book is not much more than a family album, irrelevant for outsiders.
Also, I don't agree with his vision on some of Dostoyevsky's books reviewed here.
The theme in `Notes from the Underground' is not `the joys of degradation', but the, for Dostoyevsky, disasters of reason: `Consciousness only generates questions, never-ending doubt and torments until man lays on his deathbed. ... People should be stupid and act.'
`The Demons' is in no way Dostoyevsky's most comic book. The first edition was heavily censored: the confession of pedophilia by the main character was left out.
Scholars have pointed their finger (like the child in the book) at what could have been a Dostoyevskyan Lolita problem. Also, in `Winter Notes on Summer Impressions' the author meets in the London Haymarket a child of only six, black and blue beaten, barefoot, who tries to lure him to have sex with her.
Nabokov's `Ada' is a direct confrontation with the `Viennese Delegation'.
This book contains valuable information on the author's own novels.
Only for Orhan Pamuk fans.
Also, I don't agree with his vision on some of Dostoyevsky's books reviewed here.
The theme in `Notes from the Underground' is not `the joys of degradation', but the, for Dostoyevsky, disasters of reason: `Consciousness only generates questions, never-ending doubt and torments until man lays on his deathbed. ... People should be stupid and act.'
`The Demons' is in no way Dostoyevsky's most comic book. The first edition was heavily censored: the confession of pedophilia by the main character was left out.
Scholars have pointed their finger (like the child in the book) at what could have been a Dostoyevskyan Lolita problem. Also, in `Winter Notes on Summer Impressions' the author meets in the London Haymarket a child of only six, black and blue beaten, barefoot, who tries to lure him to have sex with her.
Nabokov's `Ada' is a direct confrontation with the `Viennese Delegation'.
This book contains valuable information on the author's own novels.
Only for Orhan Pamuk fans.
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