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Product Description: Mondadori. Barcelona. 2011. 24 cm. 161 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Literatura Mondadori', 475. Pamuk, Orhan 1952-. Traducción del inglés de Roberto Falcó Miramontes. Título original: The naïve and the sentimental novelist...read more

What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections. Pamuk draws on Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between “naive” poets—who write spontaneously, serenely, unselfconsciously—and “sentimental” poets: those who are reflective, emotional, questioning, and alive to the artifice of the written word. Harking back to the beloved novels of his youth and ranging through the work of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul, he explores the oscillation between the naive and the reflective, and the search for an equilibrium, that lie at the center of the novelist’s craft. He ponders the novel’s visual and sensual power—its ability to conjure landscapes so vivid they can make the here-and-now fade away. In the course of this exploration, he considers the elements of character, plot, time, and setting that compose the “sweet illusion” of the fictional world. Anyone who has known the pleasure of becoming immersed in a novel will enjoy, and learn from, this perceptive book by one of the modern masters of the art.

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar

A furor erupts when the Sultan hires a group of artists, under the direction of Master Uncle, to illuminate a great book in the European style to celebrate his reign at a time in which all figurative art is considered Islamic heresy, but the situation becomes worse when one of the miniaturists vanishes, in a mystery set against the backdrop of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: La historia de amor entre Kemal, un joven miembro de la burguesia de Estambul, y su pariente lejana Füsun, es una extraordinaria novela sobre la pasion rayana en la obsesion. Lo que comienza como una aventura inocente y desinhibida, evoluciona pronto hacia el amor sin limites, y despues, cuando Füsun desaparece, hacia una profunda melancolia...read more

“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red. It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie—a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, restaurant rituals, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay—until finally he breaks off his engagement to Sibel. But his resolve comes too late. For eight years Kemal will find excuses to visit another Istanbul, that of the impoverished backstreets where Füsun, her heart now hardened, lives with her parents, and where Kemal discovers the consolations of middle-class life at a dinner table in front of the television. His obsessive love will also take him to the demimonde of Istanbul film circles (where he promises to make Füsun a star), a scene of seedy bars, run-down cheap hotels, and small men with big dreams doomed to bitter failure. In his feckless pursuit, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart’s reactions: anger and impatience, remorse and humiliation, deluded hopes of recovery, and daydreams that transform Istanbul into a cityscape of signs and specters of his beloved, from whom now he can extract only meaningful glances and stolen kisses in cars, movie houses, and shadowy corners of parks. A last change to realize his dream will come to an awful end before Kemal discovers that all he finally can possess, certainly and eternally, is the museum he has created of his collection, this map of a society’s manners and mores, and of one man’s broken heart.A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting, The Museum of Innocence also plumbs the depths of an Istanbul half Western and half traditional—its emergent modernity, its vast cultural history. This is Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement.From the Hardcover edition.

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Product Description: Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografía, la del propio Orhan Pamuk. La historia da comienzo con el capítulo de su infancia, donde Pamuk nos habla sobre su excéntrica familia y su vid...read more

Product Description: Debolsillo. Barcelona. 2007. 19 cm. 437 p. il. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Bestseller', 692. Pamuk, Orhan 1952-. Istanbul. Traducción de Rafael Carpintero. Ciudad y recuerdos. Subtít. de la cub...read more

Durante una semana, días y noches en la mágica capital de Turquía, un joven abogado, Galip, emprende la búsqueda de su mujer, a quien ama con locura desde la infancia, y que ha desaparecido dejando una carta de diecinueve palabras. ¿Se trata de un juego? ¿De un adiós? En cualquier caso, será también el descubrimiento de su propia identidad. A lo largo de la investigación, llena de misticismo y sorpresas cabalísticas, el lector acompañará al protagonista siguiendo indicios, reuniendo pistas, dentro de una coherente trama de espejismos e ironías. Con inteligencia y maestría, Orhan Pamuk construye una novela de misterio totalmente original.

Product Description: In the many decades that Pamuk has devoted to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving and provocative essays and articles. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a dazzling novelist’s best non-fiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions...read more

Product Description: Otros colores es una especie de cajón desastre donde Orhan Pamuk guarda sus pertenencias más íntimas. Cosas insignificantes, manías personales, pero también reflexiones universales, fragmentos de su diario, fotografías y dibujos.

Product Description: Un joven científico italiano es capturado por piratas cuando viaja de Venecia a Nápoles. Poco después es vendido como esclavo a un sabio turco deseoso de conocer los avances científicos de Occidente. Ambientada en la Turquía del siglo XVII, El castillo blanco cuenta la extraordinaria historia de estos dos hombres, que curiosamente guardan un gran parecido físico...read more

Product Description: In the period of a week, through the daylight and nighttime hours, Galip, a young lawyer, embarks on the search of his vanished wife, Rya. Armed with a letter containing only nineteen words and a profound love for Rya, Galip takes on the identity of his wife’s half brother Jelal, a newspaper columnist who had tried to instigate a military coup in the 1960’s and allegedly betrayed the revolutionary cause, and who has also vanished...read more