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Conversations with Orhan Pamuk
About this book
In over thirty interviews conducted between 1982 and 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense literary and political engagement.Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) is a foremost practitioner of the global novel today. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and sold over fifteen million copies globally. The interviews in this volume open windows onto Pamuk's everyday life, craft, and process, constituting an alternative literary history that provides insights into the novelist's influences, method, form, and content. These conversations reveal that a Pamuk novel is predicated on methodical research, at times archival and scholarly, investigative and journalistic, or ethnographic. They are necessarily instructive and edifying as much as they are entertaining, providing a discursive space of literary history where writing, politics, and the everyday intersect and where the politics of literature can be located.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- “One Should Seek to Be a People’s Writer Rather Than an Elite Writer”
- “I Wanted to Show How Everything Eventually Sinks into the Overwhelming Banality of the Dreary Thing Called Everyday Life”
- Orhan Pamuk from Cevdet Bey to The White Castle—“I Started Out with Lukács”
- Orhan Pamuk: “Enigma Is Sovereign”
- The Best Seller of Byzantium
- Turkish Interview Excerpts from Öteki Renkler (Other Colors: Essays and a Story)
- Sense of the City: Istanbul
- “I Was Not a Political Person”
- The Most Hated Turk
- “One’s Novels Can Be Seen as the Milestones in the Development of One’s Spirit”
- Orhan Pamuk and the Turkish Paradox
- Nobel Foundation Telephone Interview with Orhan Pamuk
- Nobel Prize in Literature Interview: Orhan Pamuk
- “No One Drives Me into Exile”
- “Novels Are Encyclopedias”
- Orhan Pamuk and Salman Rushdie on “Homeland”
- A Conversation with the Nobel Prize-Winning Author of The Museum of Innocence
- Orhan Pamuk Interview: Painting and Literature
- Orhan Pamuk Interview: Turkish Geopolitics
- Orhan Pamuk: Silent House
- Orhan Pamuk: “A Book Is a Promise”
- Orhan Pamuk on Taksim Square, the Effects of Breaking Bad, and Why the Future of the Novel Is in the East
- On Writing A Strangeness in My Mind
- “I Am an Accidental Politician”
- “I Don’t Write My Books to Explain My Country to Others”
- Politics & Prose Presents Orhan Pamuk
- On the Photographs in Balkon
- “I Am Content with My Novel”
- “Nights of Plague, the Novel I Am Currently Writing, Is Also Something of an East-West Novel”
- Turkish Interview Excerpts on Nights of Plague
- An Interview about Interviews
- Index
- About the Editors