
Estambul. Ciudad Y Recuerdos / Istanbul: Memories and the City
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.
- Författare
- Orhan Pamuk
- ISBN
- 9788499080314
- Språk
- Spanska
- Vikt
- 318 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2026-03-01
- Förlag
- Debolsillo
- Sidor
- 448
