Ara Guler
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LEARNING TURKISH WHEN….
THE GOOGLE TRANSLATE-DRIVEN TURKISH IS SO BAD, YOU SWITCH TO THE TN VERSION FROM EN VERSION AFTER READING: "The process that you have the fulle…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 22
BY ORHAN PAMUK If readers are inclined to be suspicious of a fiction writer's memories--as well they should be--more than 200 photos and prints p…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 7
BY ORHAN PAMUK Here we come to the heart of the matter: I’ve never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighborhoods of my childhood. …
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Ara Guler
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LEARNING TURKISH WHEN….
THE GOOGLE TRANSLATE-DRIVEN TURKISH IS SO BAD, YOU SWITCH TO THE TN VERSION FROM EN VERSION AFTER READING: "The process that you have the fulle…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 12
BY ORHAN PAMUK I was born in the middle of the night on June 7, 1952, in a small private hospital in Moda. Its corridors, I’m told, were peaceful th…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 27
BY ORHAN PAMUK As with himself and the picture of his "other," Pamuk suggests, Istanbul is haunted by another Istanbul, a shadowy presence …
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 9
BY ORHAN PAMUK Gustave Flaubert, who visited Istanbul 102 years before my birth, was struck by the variety of life in its teeming streets; in one of …
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 28
BY ORHAN PAMUK Through the descriptions of other writers -- several Turkish masters, various traveling foreigners -- Pamuk parades yet more double-im…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 4
BY ORHAN PAMUK Of course, now I too was living in another house. It was as if I’d had to move here before I could meet my twin, but as I wanted only …
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 24
BY ORHAN PAMUK According to Orhan Pamuk, the melancholy of Istanbul is huzun, a Turkish word whose Arabic root (it appears five times in the Koran) d…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 6
BY ORHAN PAMUK Then I would shudder to think that the other Orhan might be living in one of these houses. As I grew older, the ghost became a fantas…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 19
BY ORHAN PAMUK Istanbul's hüzün, Pamuk writes, "is a way of looking at life that... is ultimately as life affirming as it is negating."…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 26
BY ORHAN PAMUK Pamuk begins his inquiry with an image, a kitschy portrait of a child brought back from Europe that was hung in the house of his aunt.…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 1
BY ORHAN PAMUK From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: Somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house rese…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 3
BY ORHAN PAMUK The sweet doe-eyed boy inside the small white frame did look a bit like me, it’s true. He was even wearing the cap I sometimes wore. …
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 23
BY ORHAN PAMUK All happy cities resemble one another, to paraphrase what Tolstoy famously observed of families, but each melancholy city is melanchol…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 33
BY ORHAN PAMUK A city one has lived in long enough shapes itself into one's own image, acquires the traits of one's personality, the features…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 22
BY ORHAN PAMUK If readers are inclined to be suspicious of a fiction writer's memories--as well they should be--more than 200 photos and prints p…
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 9
BY ORHAN PAMUK Gustave Flaubert, who visited Istanbul 102 years before my birth, was struck by the variety of life in its teeming streets; in one of …
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Ara Guler
ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 25
BY ORHAN PAMUK Huzun is therefore a sought-after state, and it is the absence, not the presence, of huzun that causes the sufferer distress. "It…
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