具体描述
Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers.
Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces—personal, critical, and meditative—the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter’s precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City. From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears. Again and again Pamuk declares his faith in fiction, engaging the work of such predecessors as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, sharing fragments from his notebooks, and commenting on his own novels. He contemplates his mysterious compulsion to sit alone at a desk and dream, always returning to the rich deliverance that is reading and writing.
By turns witty, moving, playful, and provocative, Other Colors glows with the energy of a master at work and gives us the world through his eyes, assigning every radiant theme and shifting mood its precise shade in the spectrum of significance.
作者简介
Orhan Pamuk is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He lives in Istanbul.
目录信息
LIVING AND WORRYING
1. The Implied Author
2. My Father
3. Notes on April 29, 1994
4. Spring Afternoons
5. Dead Tired in the Evening
6. Out of Bed, in the Silence of Night
7. When the Furniture Is Talking, How Can You Sleep?
8. Giving Up Smoking
9. Seagull in the Rain
10. A Seagull Lies Dying on the Shore
11. To Be Happy
12. My Wristwatches
13. I’m Not Going to School
14. Rüya and Us
15. When Rüya Is Sad
16. The View
17. What I Know About Dogs
18. A Note on Poetic Justice
19. After the Storm
20. In This Place Long Ago
21. The House of the Man Who Has No One
22. Barbers
23. Fires and Ruins
24. Frankfurter
25. Bosphorus Ferries
26. The Islands
27. Earthquake
28. Earthquake Angst in Istanbul
BOOKS AND READING
29. How I Got Rid of Some of My Books
30. On Reading: Words or Images
31. The Pleasures of Reading
32. Nine Notes on Book Covers
33. To Read or Not to Read: The Thousand and One Nights
34. Foreword to Tristram Shandy:
Everyone Should Have an Uncle Like This
35. Victor Hugo’s Passion for Greatness
36. Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground: The Joys of Degradation
37. Dostoyevsky’s Fearsome Demons
38. The Brothers Karamazov
39. Cruelty, Beauty, and Time: On Nabokov’s Ada and Lolita
40. Albert Camus
41. Reading Thomas Bernhard in a Time of Unhappiness
42. The World of Thomas Bernhard’s Novels
43. Mario Vargas Llosa and Third World Literature
44. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses and the Freedom of the Writer
POLITICS, EUROPE, AND OTHER PROBLEMS OF BEING ONESELF
45. PEN Arthur Miller Speech
46. No Entry
47. Where Is Europe?
48. A Guide to Being Mediterranean
49. My First Passport and Other European Journeys
50. André Gide
51. Family Meals and Politics on Religious Holidays
52. The Anger of the Damned
53. Traffic and Religion
54. In Kars and Frankfurt
55. On Trial
56. Who Do You Write For?
MY BOOKS ARE MY LIFE
57. The White Castle Afterword
58. The Black Book: Ten Years On
59. A Selection from Interviews on The New Life
60. A Selection from Interviews on My Name Is Red
61. On My Name Is Red
62. From the Snow in Kars Notebooks
PICTURES AND TEXTS
63. Sirin’s Surprise
64. In the Forest and as Old as the World
65. Murders by Unknown Assailants and Detective Novels
66. Entr’acte; or, Ah, Cleopatra!
67. Why Didn’t I Become an Architect?
68. Selimiye Mosque
69. Bellini and the East
70. Black Pen
71. Meaning
OTHER CITIES, OTHER CIVILIZATIONS
72. My First Encounters with Americans
73. Views from the Capital of the World
THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEW
TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
MY FATHER’S SUITCASE
Index
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评分这本《Other Colors》真是让人眼前一亮，它不像我预想中的那样拘泥于某种固定的叙事框架，反而像是一幅流动的、不断变化的色彩图景。作者的笔触极其细腻，对于人物内心世界的描摹简直是入木三分。我尤其喜欢其中对于“灰色地带”的探讨，那种介于黑白之间的模糊感，被描绘得既真实又富有诗意。书中很多场景的切换都处理得非常巧妙，仿佛电影镜头一样，一帧一帧地在脑海中构建起复杂的情感空间。我常常在阅读的时候，会不自觉地停下来，回味某一个段落，因为它触及到了我过去从未曾留意到的情感角落。比如主人公在面对重大抉择时的那种犹豫和挣扎，那不仅仅是简单的对错选择，而是关于自我认同的深刻拷问。而且，这本书的语言风格非常独特，时而古典凝练，时而又充满了现代的跳跃感，这种混搭反而带来了一种奇妙的和谐，让人在阅读时始终保持着高度的专注。
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评分坦白说，初读这本书时，我差点被那些层出不多的象征意义给绕晕了。这不是一本可以让你轻松翻阅的书，它需要你投入精力去解码。书中的“色彩”显然不仅仅是视觉上的概念，它们代表着不同的情绪状态、社会阶层，甚至是对既定秩序的反叛。有那么几章，情节发展得异常缓慢，几乎像是在进行一场深刻的哲学思辨，读起来确实有些吃力，需要反复咀嚼。但一旦你抓住了作者埋下的线索，那种豁然开朗的感觉是无与伦比的。我特别欣赏作者在构建世界观上的野心，它似乎在探讨一个宏大的主题——关于身份的流动性和不可固化性。我花了整整一个下午的时间去研究其中关于“蓝调”与“赤红”碰撞的那部分，那种张力写得惊心动魄，仿佛能听到文字在纸面上摩擦的声音。这本书更像是一件需要被细细品味的艺术品，而不是快消品，非常适合那些喜欢深度挖掘文本内涵的读者。
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