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乇賰丕賲 賷禺賮賷 賲丕 鬲丨鬲賴 , 賵 孬賱噩 賷睾胤賷 乇賲丕丿 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞. 賴賰匕丕 鬲亘丿賵 賰丕乇爻 -廿丨丿賶 賲丿賳 丕賱兀賳丕囟賵賱 - 亘毓賷丿丞 賰賱 丕賱亘毓丿 毓賳 丕爻鬲丕賳亘賵賱貙 睾丕乇賯丞 賮賷 丕賱賮賯乇 賵 丕賱丕賳賯爻丕賲丕鬲 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 賵 丕賱亘丐爻. 鬲丕乇賷禺賴丕 丕賱賲囟胤乇亘 賷鬲賲賵乇 鬲丨鬲 兀賰賵丕賲 丕賱亘賷丕囟. 賱賴丕 賲賳 丕賱毓孬賲丕賳賷賷賳 賵 丕賱兀乇賲賳 亘毓囟 丕賱丌孬丕乇 賵 賱賴丕 賲賳 丕賱乇賵爻 賵 丕賱兀鬲乇丕賰 賲丕 鬲亘賯賶 賲賳 賳夭賮 丕賱亘卮乇. 賱賲 鬲賰賳 乇丨賱丞 (賰丕) 乇丨賱丞 毓丕丿賷丞. 賮 (賰丕) 卮丕毓乇 賲賵賴賵亘貙 卮賷賵毓賷 賵 賷爻丕乇賷貙 鬲賲 賳賮賷賴 賲賳 鬲乇賰賷丕 賯亘賱 乇丨賱鬲賴 廿賱賶 賰丕乇爻 亘毓卮乇 爻賳賵丕鬲 . 毓丕丿 廿賱賶 丕爻鬲丕賳亘賵賱 亘毓丿 丨氐賵賱賴 毓賱賶 丕賱賱噩賵亍 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷 賲賳 兀賱賲丕賳賷丕 賱丨囟賵乇 噩賳丕夭丞 兀賲賴 . 賵 兀孬賳丕亍 賵噩賵丿賴 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賷鬲賲 鬲賰賱賷賮賴 - 賲賳 氐丨賷賮丞 賲毓乇賵賮丞 賮賷 丕爻鬲丕賳亘賵賱 - 亘夭賷丕乇丞 賰丕乇爻 賵 亘丕賱鬲丨乇賷 毓賳 賲賵噩丞 丕賱丕賳鬲丨丕乇 丕賱鬲賷 賯丕賲鬲 亘賴丕 亘毓囟 賮鬲賷丕鬲 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 丕賱賲丨噩亘丕鬲 貙 賵 賷胤賱亘 賲賳賴 兀賷囟丕 鬲睾胤賷丞 丕賳鬲禺丕亘丕鬲 丕賱亘賱丿丞 賵 丕賱鬲賷 賷鬲賵賯毓 賮賵夭 丕賱廿爻賱丕賲賷賷賳 賮賷賴丕.
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First published January 1, 2002
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Orhan Pamuk
139听books10.2k听followersFerit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre 脡tranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International Dublin Literary Award.
The European Writers' Parliament came about as a result of a joint proposal by Pamuk and Jos茅 Saramago. Pamuk's willingness to write books about contentious historical and political events put him at risk of censure in his homeland. In 2005, a lawyer sued him over a statement acknowledging the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk said his intention had been to highlight issues of freedom of speech in Turkey. The court initially declined to hear the case, but in 2011 Pamuk was ordered to pay 6,000 liras in compensation for having insulted the plaintiffs' honor.
Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre 脡tranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International Dublin Literary Award.
The European Writers' Parliament came about as a result of a joint proposal by Pamuk and Jos茅 Saramago. Pamuk's willingness to write books about contentious historical and political events put him at risk of censure in his homeland. In 2005, a lawyer sued him over a statement acknowledging the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk said his intention had been to highlight issues of freedom of speech in Turkey. The court initially declined to hear the case, but in 2011 Pamuk was ordered to pay 6,000 liras in compensation for having insulted the plaintiffs' honor.
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December 12, 2017
A mystery.
A social case study.
A culture clash.
A literary masterpiece.
Unreliable narrators.
Misogyny.
Protest.
Political campaigns.
Multiple truths.
Diverse realities.
Deeply moving characters.
Darkly funny storylines.
Religious fundamentalism.
Arrogant humanism.
Liberal press coverage.
Fake News.
National identity divergences.
This novel contains so many different strands, I am hopelessly incapable of reviewing it. Ever since I first read it, just after Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize, it has been one of my most cherished literary treasures, a book full of truth and lies, of foolishness and wisdom, of love and hate, of passion and indifference. A book full of LIFE!
If anything, it has gained more power in recent years, as we see Turkish democracy facing ever harder challenges, and various traditions clashing with liberal ideas and freedom of thought. As history moves on, the story of the Istanbul journalist who visits remote Kars to investigate young women's suicides becomes more real, and relevant, and the questions raised shine in a bright new light.
The power of a novel to speak truth to power and to enrage people!
Recommended to the world!
A social case study.
A culture clash.
A literary masterpiece.
Unreliable narrators.
Misogyny.
Protest.
Political campaigns.
Multiple truths.
Diverse realities.
Deeply moving characters.
Darkly funny storylines.
Religious fundamentalism.
Arrogant humanism.
Liberal press coverage.
Fake News.
National identity divergences.
This novel contains so many different strands, I am hopelessly incapable of reviewing it. Ever since I first read it, just after Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize, it has been one of my most cherished literary treasures, a book full of truth and lies, of foolishness and wisdom, of love and hate, of passion and indifference. A book full of LIFE!
If anything, it has gained more power in recent years, as we see Turkish democracy facing ever harder challenges, and various traditions clashing with liberal ideas and freedom of thought. As history moves on, the story of the Istanbul journalist who visits remote Kars to investigate young women's suicides becomes more real, and relevant, and the questions raised shine in a bright new light.
The power of a novel to speak truth to power and to enrage people!
Recommended to the world!
December 4, 2013
After finishing this book I felt virtuous, relieved. Then baffled, irritated, and finally dismissive. Other Good Reads reviewers express the desire to like this book, but proceed to be confused, bored, and insecure. Most wrap up with the dismal feeling that they didn鈥檛 GET it, and so didn鈥檛 succeed in really liking it. I felt the same, but in addition was supremely annoyed and turned off by it. I鈥檓 not so good at post-modern fiction to begin with, but I decided to leave my bias at the door because I had heard such great things about this author, and Pamuk didn鈥檛 seem like a bogus poser from what I鈥檇 read.
The story is about an expatriate Turkish poet named Ka who leads a solitary and arid life in Frankfurt and travels to a remote village in his homeland, ostensibly to investigate a spate of suicides by religious Muslim women protesting the injunction to remove their head scarves at school. He is really there to kindle a romance with a recently divorced woman he knew at university. The novel unfolds over three days when the snow has cut off the town from the outside world. What transpires is a coup led by a dysfunctional theater troupe, a lot of political intrigue, and much ball batting between secular and religious townspeople. Pamuk gives equal billing to every opinion, although they do not differ much in terms of their reductive, inflamed and binary natures, or in ability to capture my interest or sustained attention. This is in large part because the protagonist Ka is stunted,childish and infuriating himself, and the writing is both busy and detached. The political intrigue and opinions in Snow are not interesting or illuminating, as they do not emanate from fleshed-out people, but cardboard cut-outs spouting giant, densely packed and tedious word bubbles.
Inspiration strikes Ka while in Kars, and he stops to transcribe a series of nineteen poems, whenever they descend on him in perfectly realized form. Conveniently they get lost, but a conversation about them between Ka and his paramour goes like this:
鈥淚s it beautiful?鈥� he asked her a few moments later.
鈥淵es, it鈥檚 beautiful!鈥� said Ipek.
Ka read a few more lines aloud and then asked her again, 鈥淚s it beautiful?鈥�
鈥淚t鈥檚 beautiful,鈥� Ipek replied.
When he finished reading the poem, he asked, 鈥淪o what was it that made it beautiful?鈥�
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know,鈥� Ipek replied, 鈥渂ut I did find it beautiful.鈥�
鈥淒id Muhtar [her ex] ever read you a poem like this?鈥�
鈥淣ever,鈥� she said.
Ka began to read the poem aloud again, this time with growing force, but he still stopped at all the same places to ask, 鈥淚s it beautiful?鈥� He also stopped at a few new places to say, 鈥淚t really is very beautiful, isn鈥檛 it?鈥�
鈥淵es, it鈥檚 very beautiful!鈥� Ipek replied.
To my mind, only a child under ten should ever be indulged in this sort of megalomania, and then only by his mother, but Ka is nowhere punished, ridiculed or even chided for his insufferable personality, and in fact I think we are supposed to admire him as embodying the innocence, purity, pathos and single-mindedness that come with being a true artist.
Margaret Atwood says, in the New York Times Book Review 鈥淣ot only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times. [Pamuk is] narrating his country into being.鈥� This seems to me the best case for why Snow won the Nobel Prize. The book makes Turkey legible, as well as digestible, to the West. The novel is chock a block with allusions to white western male institutions 鈥� Kafka, Coleridge, Mann, Nabokov (he wrote a lot of stuff in the west, anyway): an annoying and intrusive narrator, a novelist named Orhan, whose games of peek-a-boo get harder and harder to humor, an abysmal, abyssal usage of literary envelopes, a morose and misunderstood genius of a hero who falls desparately in love with a woman he obstinately refuses to lend more than one dimension 鈥� the sex scenes, incidentally, are some of the most unintentionally off-putting I have ever read, and recall the experience almost every woman has been unfortunate to undergo at least once, where she feels she might leave the room, go get some cheesecake and stand in the door frame watching her partner rythmically brutalizing a stack of pillows in laughable ignorance of her whereabouts or even existence. Afterwards our hero has the witlessness to add to the injury by calling this essentially masturbatory act 鈥渓ove-making鈥�. In fact, this pretty much sums up my response to the whole book.
The story is about an expatriate Turkish poet named Ka who leads a solitary and arid life in Frankfurt and travels to a remote village in his homeland, ostensibly to investigate a spate of suicides by religious Muslim women protesting the injunction to remove their head scarves at school. He is really there to kindle a romance with a recently divorced woman he knew at university. The novel unfolds over three days when the snow has cut off the town from the outside world. What transpires is a coup led by a dysfunctional theater troupe, a lot of political intrigue, and much ball batting between secular and religious townspeople. Pamuk gives equal billing to every opinion, although they do not differ much in terms of their reductive, inflamed and binary natures, or in ability to capture my interest or sustained attention. This is in large part because the protagonist Ka is stunted,childish and infuriating himself, and the writing is both busy and detached. The political intrigue and opinions in Snow are not interesting or illuminating, as they do not emanate from fleshed-out people, but cardboard cut-outs spouting giant, densely packed and tedious word bubbles.
Inspiration strikes Ka while in Kars, and he stops to transcribe a series of nineteen poems, whenever they descend on him in perfectly realized form. Conveniently they get lost, but a conversation about them between Ka and his paramour goes like this:
鈥淚s it beautiful?鈥� he asked her a few moments later.
鈥淵es, it鈥檚 beautiful!鈥� said Ipek.
Ka read a few more lines aloud and then asked her again, 鈥淚s it beautiful?鈥�
鈥淚t鈥檚 beautiful,鈥� Ipek replied.
When he finished reading the poem, he asked, 鈥淪o what was it that made it beautiful?鈥�
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know,鈥� Ipek replied, 鈥渂ut I did find it beautiful.鈥�
鈥淒id Muhtar [her ex] ever read you a poem like this?鈥�
鈥淣ever,鈥� she said.
Ka began to read the poem aloud again, this time with growing force, but he still stopped at all the same places to ask, 鈥淚s it beautiful?鈥� He also stopped at a few new places to say, 鈥淚t really is very beautiful, isn鈥檛 it?鈥�
鈥淵es, it鈥檚 very beautiful!鈥� Ipek replied.
To my mind, only a child under ten should ever be indulged in this sort of megalomania, and then only by his mother, but Ka is nowhere punished, ridiculed or even chided for his insufferable personality, and in fact I think we are supposed to admire him as embodying the innocence, purity, pathos and single-mindedness that come with being a true artist.
Margaret Atwood says, in the New York Times Book Review 鈥淣ot only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times. [Pamuk is] narrating his country into being.鈥� This seems to me the best case for why Snow won the Nobel Prize. The book makes Turkey legible, as well as digestible, to the West. The novel is chock a block with allusions to white western male institutions 鈥� Kafka, Coleridge, Mann, Nabokov (he wrote a lot of stuff in the west, anyway): an annoying and intrusive narrator, a novelist named Orhan, whose games of peek-a-boo get harder and harder to humor, an abysmal, abyssal usage of literary envelopes, a morose and misunderstood genius of a hero who falls desparately in love with a woman he obstinately refuses to lend more than one dimension 鈥� the sex scenes, incidentally, are some of the most unintentionally off-putting I have ever read, and recall the experience almost every woman has been unfortunate to undergo at least once, where she feels she might leave the room, go get some cheesecake and stand in the door frame watching her partner rythmically brutalizing a stack of pillows in laughable ignorance of her whereabouts or even existence. Afterwards our hero has the witlessness to add to the injury by calling this essentially masturbatory act 鈥渓ove-making鈥�. In fact, this pretty much sums up my response to the whole book.
September 1, 2021
Kar = Snow, c2002, Orhan Pamuk
Snow, is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. Published in Turkish in 2002, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely and published in 2004.
The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and a deep sympathy with its characters.
Ka is a poet, who returns to Turkey after 12 years of political exile in Germany. He has several motives, first, as a journalist, to investigate a spate of suicides but also in the hope of meeting a woman he used to know.
Heavy snow cuts off the town for about three days during which time Ka is in conversation with a former communist, a secularist, a fascist nationalist, a possible Islamic extremist, Islamic moderates, young Kurds, the military, the Secret Service, the police and in particular, an actor-revolutionary. In the midst of this, love and passion are to be found.
Temporarily closed off from the world, a farcical coup is staged and linked melodramatically to a stage play. The main discussion concerns the interface of secularism and belief but there are references to all of Turkey's twentieth century history.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 15/09/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 09/06/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Snow, is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. Published in Turkish in 2002, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely and published in 2004.
The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and a deep sympathy with its characters.
Ka is a poet, who returns to Turkey after 12 years of political exile in Germany. He has several motives, first, as a journalist, to investigate a spate of suicides but also in the hope of meeting a woman he used to know.
Heavy snow cuts off the town for about three days during which time Ka is in conversation with a former communist, a secularist, a fascist nationalist, a possible Islamic extremist, Islamic moderates, young Kurds, the military, the Secret Service, the police and in particular, an actor-revolutionary. In the midst of this, love and passion are to be found.
Temporarily closed off from the world, a farcical coup is staged and linked melodramatically to a stage play. The main discussion concerns the interface of secularism and belief but there are references to all of Turkey's twentieth century history.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 15/09/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 09/06/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
March 14, 2023
[Revised 3/14/23]
Our main character is a Turkish emigre, one of many who live in Germany. He is returning home after years away. We are told he ran into political difficulties with his poetry and decided to leave Turkey. He returns to Turkey ostensibly for his mother鈥檚 funeral, but he has also learned through the grapevine that an old flame of his is now divorced. His instinct is that this journey will change his life.
Once back in Turkey, when he needs a reason to stay on, he tells people he is a journalist doing a story on the 鈥渉eadscarves suicides.鈥� A good part of the story centers on the production and delivery of a play about the headscarves. The state-sponsored play comes across as reminiscent of the type of thing put on in Mao鈥檚 China that everyone had to attend.
Kars, where the novel is set, is a real city in the northeast corner of Turkey, near Georgia, and Armenia and not far from the Caucasus Mountains and Russia -- thus the severe winter weather of the title. Its nearness to many borders has also given it a complex ethnic and political history, with Greeks, Georgians, Kurds and Persians in its past and present. Abandoned Russian and Armenian mansions and other buildings figure in the story. One theme is that the city is 'down and out,' destitute really, by-passed by the modern economy. About twenty times the narrator walks the snow-filed streets and tells us he looks in on the teahouses filled with unemployed men smoking themselves to death.
During his visit, a week-long snowstorm paralyzes the city. In fact the snow receives so much emphasis that it makes it what I like to call an environmental novel (like The Shipping News) where the environment is almost a character in the novel.
So the narrator is a small-time poet. (Are there any big-time poets left?) He鈥檚 also obsessed with examining his level of happiness, deliberately trying to improve his happiness, and we all know where that leads.
There鈥檚 a lot of political intrigue. Turkey is struggling to remain a Muslim, yet secular state. There is a lot of police tyranny and censorship. The prisons offer equal opportunity confinement and torture for Kurds, communists, and Islamic fundamentalists. 鈥溾€hree days, that鈥檚 all it takes, three days and they鈥檙e dead: gone, shot, forgotten.鈥�
The narrator makes a point of telling us about his belief in a geometry of opposites. We see this several times: his old flame has a sister; one sister is very modern and one is a fundamentalist. We have atheists and religious fanatics. We are told that old Marxists and communists make good religious zealots when they convert.
One intriguing theme discussed a couple of times; Are strongly-held religious and political beliefs a luxury for the rich? Or are they the only consolation available to the poor? The blurbs are right in telling us this is a very political novel. It鈥檚 dense with themes, and overly long (it could be cut by a third) but still a good read.
Written in 2002, this novel predates Pamuk鈥檚 winning of the Nobel Prize in 2006. The 欧宝娱乐 blurb says 鈥淪now, which he describes as 鈥渕y first and last political novel鈥� was published in 2002. In this book set in the small city of Kars in northeastern Turkey he experimented with a new type of 鈥榩olitical novel,鈥� telling the story of violence and tension between political Islamists, soldiers, secularists, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalists. Snow was selected as one of the best 100 books of 2004 by The New York Times.鈥� Snow is the second-most popular book of the author (1952-) in English translation after My Name is Red.
Top photo of Kars in the snow from theturkishcuisine.com
The author from m.bianet.org
Our main character is a Turkish emigre, one of many who live in Germany. He is returning home after years away. We are told he ran into political difficulties with his poetry and decided to leave Turkey. He returns to Turkey ostensibly for his mother鈥檚 funeral, but he has also learned through the grapevine that an old flame of his is now divorced. His instinct is that this journey will change his life.
Once back in Turkey, when he needs a reason to stay on, he tells people he is a journalist doing a story on the 鈥渉eadscarves suicides.鈥� A good part of the story centers on the production and delivery of a play about the headscarves. The state-sponsored play comes across as reminiscent of the type of thing put on in Mao鈥檚 China that everyone had to attend.
Kars, where the novel is set, is a real city in the northeast corner of Turkey, near Georgia, and Armenia and not far from the Caucasus Mountains and Russia -- thus the severe winter weather of the title. Its nearness to many borders has also given it a complex ethnic and political history, with Greeks, Georgians, Kurds and Persians in its past and present. Abandoned Russian and Armenian mansions and other buildings figure in the story. One theme is that the city is 'down and out,' destitute really, by-passed by the modern economy. About twenty times the narrator walks the snow-filed streets and tells us he looks in on the teahouses filled with unemployed men smoking themselves to death.
During his visit, a week-long snowstorm paralyzes the city. In fact the snow receives so much emphasis that it makes it what I like to call an environmental novel (like The Shipping News) where the environment is almost a character in the novel.
So the narrator is a small-time poet. (Are there any big-time poets left?) He鈥檚 also obsessed with examining his level of happiness, deliberately trying to improve his happiness, and we all know where that leads.
There鈥檚 a lot of political intrigue. Turkey is struggling to remain a Muslim, yet secular state. There is a lot of police tyranny and censorship. The prisons offer equal opportunity confinement and torture for Kurds, communists, and Islamic fundamentalists. 鈥溾€hree days, that鈥檚 all it takes, three days and they鈥檙e dead: gone, shot, forgotten.鈥�
The narrator makes a point of telling us about his belief in a geometry of opposites. We see this several times: his old flame has a sister; one sister is very modern and one is a fundamentalist. We have atheists and religious fanatics. We are told that old Marxists and communists make good religious zealots when they convert.
One intriguing theme discussed a couple of times; Are strongly-held religious and political beliefs a luxury for the rich? Or are they the only consolation available to the poor? The blurbs are right in telling us this is a very political novel. It鈥檚 dense with themes, and overly long (it could be cut by a third) but still a good read.
Written in 2002, this novel predates Pamuk鈥檚 winning of the Nobel Prize in 2006. The 欧宝娱乐 blurb says 鈥淪now, which he describes as 鈥渕y first and last political novel鈥� was published in 2002. In this book set in the small city of Kars in northeastern Turkey he experimented with a new type of 鈥榩olitical novel,鈥� telling the story of violence and tension between political Islamists, soldiers, secularists, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalists. Snow was selected as one of the best 100 books of 2004 by The New York Times.鈥� Snow is the second-most popular book of the author (1952-) in English translation after My Name is Red.
Top photo of Kars in the snow from theturkishcuisine.com
The author from m.bianet.org
November 28, 2021
5 " provocative, desolate, yearnful" stars !!!
10th Favorite Read of 2017 (tie)
To read Snow is to laugh loudly and cry quietly.
Kars, a small city in northeast Turkey, a backwater that had glory days and multiple conquerings over the centuries. There are Turks, Kurds, Azeris and a few Russians. Most of the men are unemployed and spend their days in teahouses discussing politics and religion. They are demoralized and oppress their women and children.
Ka is a poet of Turkish descent who now lives in Frankfurt and is a political exile. He comes to Kars to investigate the suicides of young Muslim women for a German newspaper and becomes embroiled in a world that used to be familiar and now so foreign. He is both revered and disdained by the townspeople and falls madly in love with Ipek, an old college friend that is separated from her husband who is running for mayor. The plot gets more and more complicated and farcical but not just in a funny way, in a convoluted way that speaks to the nature of identity, ethnic strife, fundamentalism, poverty and gender relations. So much happens in three days and you feel the sadness and despair permeate your being along with guffaws at the ridiculousness of men trying to make sense of their world and fear for women who are trying to survive and be safe.
The story is complex, beautiful and you reflect on your own existence and wonder if you are living the fullest life that you have available to you.
I very much look forward to reading more of Mr. Pamuk's work.
10th Favorite Read of 2017 (tie)
To read Snow is to laugh loudly and cry quietly.
Kars, a small city in northeast Turkey, a backwater that had glory days and multiple conquerings over the centuries. There are Turks, Kurds, Azeris and a few Russians. Most of the men are unemployed and spend their days in teahouses discussing politics and religion. They are demoralized and oppress their women and children.
Ka is a poet of Turkish descent who now lives in Frankfurt and is a political exile. He comes to Kars to investigate the suicides of young Muslim women for a German newspaper and becomes embroiled in a world that used to be familiar and now so foreign. He is both revered and disdained by the townspeople and falls madly in love with Ipek, an old college friend that is separated from her husband who is running for mayor. The plot gets more and more complicated and farcical but not just in a funny way, in a convoluted way that speaks to the nature of identity, ethnic strife, fundamentalism, poverty and gender relations. So much happens in three days and you feel the sadness and despair permeate your being along with guffaws at the ridiculousness of men trying to make sense of their world and fear for women who are trying to survive and be safe.
The story is complex, beautiful and you reflect on your own existence and wonder if you are living the fullest life that you have available to you.
I very much look forward to reading more of Mr. Pamuk's work.
April 10, 2019
An Aorist Country
Religion is rarely about dogma or belief and almost always about membership in a group and the feeling of belonging it creates. Snow is an absurdist novel about religion as community and its communal conflicts.
The protagonist, Ka, is a sort of thirty-something adolescent who finds himself in a blizzard, in love, in a state ruled by paranoia, and in the midst of a local revolution begun by a provincial theatre-group (remarkably like a Turkish version of Heinrich Boll's Clown). This constitutes his isolated but very god-like, omniscient community: "In Kars everyone always knows about everything that鈥檚 going on."
But Kars, situated as it is in Eastern Turkey, is hardly a single community. Its history is Russian, and Iranian, and Ottoman, and even a bit of English. Its inhabitants are Kurds, and Armenians, and Georgians and Azeris as well as Turks. And even among the ethnic Turks there are as many communities as there are distinctive interpretations of Islam.
Each of these communities, according to their members, is created by God. Various physical aspects of the Karsian world evoke God for the various communities. For example, 鈥淪now reminds Ka of God!鈥� Particularly its silence. But this is his community; mainly because after living as an emigre in Germany for so many years, he has no other. In Kars, he finds solace mainly because he has discovered empathy "with someone weaker than himself," namely the poor, uneducated, confused provincial Turkish folk. But that isn't how the locals see things.
The locals have a variety of religious communities from which to choose, ranging from radical Islam to secularist atheism. This latter term is not one of belief but of membership: "...that word doesn鈥檛 refer to people who don鈥檛 believe in God: it refers to the lonely ones, the people whom the gods have abandoned." That is, those who have no community.
Most of the local communities have a common enemy - the state. The state, since the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, has attempted to replace rather than include local communities within itself. But it is merely a source of what we have come to know in the age of Trump as 'fake news.' Moreover, also as in the Trumpian vein, the state is an aspiring religion, with the sovereign power that all other religions would like to have. It uses this power and legal violence to present a binary choice to the population: 鈥楳y Fatherland or My Headscarf.鈥�
The intractable conflict created by this situation isn't new in Turkey (nor for that matter in America). It existed even in the Empire. In part Pamuk expresses this through constant historical flashbacks and frequent narrative references like 'later I found out' or 'eventually we learned.' But he also captures the repetitive character of Turkish life through an ingenious literary technique that probably can't be rendered exactly in English.
Like Classical Greek, Turkish has a verb form, the Aorist or Habitual, which, although expressed in English, isn't explicit. The Aorist aspect is one of timeless repetition. It connotes past and future as well as present. The sense of the Aorist can be shown most simply in the crude English expression 'shit happens.' It doesn't just happen now; it has always happened and it always will. Turkey is the ancient, empoverished, embattled city of Kars, writ large, with its "endless wars, rebellions, massacres and atrocities." Shit just keeps happening.
The American version hasn't been written yet but it's long overdue.
Religion is rarely about dogma or belief and almost always about membership in a group and the feeling of belonging it creates. Snow is an absurdist novel about religion as community and its communal conflicts.
The protagonist, Ka, is a sort of thirty-something adolescent who finds himself in a blizzard, in love, in a state ruled by paranoia, and in the midst of a local revolution begun by a provincial theatre-group (remarkably like a Turkish version of Heinrich Boll's Clown). This constitutes his isolated but very god-like, omniscient community: "In Kars everyone always knows about everything that鈥檚 going on."
But Kars, situated as it is in Eastern Turkey, is hardly a single community. Its history is Russian, and Iranian, and Ottoman, and even a bit of English. Its inhabitants are Kurds, and Armenians, and Georgians and Azeris as well as Turks. And even among the ethnic Turks there are as many communities as there are distinctive interpretations of Islam.
Each of these communities, according to their members, is created by God. Various physical aspects of the Karsian world evoke God for the various communities. For example, 鈥淪now reminds Ka of God!鈥� Particularly its silence. But this is his community; mainly because after living as an emigre in Germany for so many years, he has no other. In Kars, he finds solace mainly because he has discovered empathy "with someone weaker than himself," namely the poor, uneducated, confused provincial Turkish folk. But that isn't how the locals see things.
The locals have a variety of religious communities from which to choose, ranging from radical Islam to secularist atheism. This latter term is not one of belief but of membership: "...that word doesn鈥檛 refer to people who don鈥檛 believe in God: it refers to the lonely ones, the people whom the gods have abandoned." That is, those who have no community.
Most of the local communities have a common enemy - the state. The state, since the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, has attempted to replace rather than include local communities within itself. But it is merely a source of what we have come to know in the age of Trump as 'fake news.' Moreover, also as in the Trumpian vein, the state is an aspiring religion, with the sovereign power that all other religions would like to have. It uses this power and legal violence to present a binary choice to the population: 鈥楳y Fatherland or My Headscarf.鈥�
The intractable conflict created by this situation isn't new in Turkey (nor for that matter in America). It existed even in the Empire. In part Pamuk expresses this through constant historical flashbacks and frequent narrative references like 'later I found out' or 'eventually we learned.' But he also captures the repetitive character of Turkish life through an ingenious literary technique that probably can't be rendered exactly in English.
Like Classical Greek, Turkish has a verb form, the Aorist or Habitual, which, although expressed in English, isn't explicit. The Aorist aspect is one of timeless repetition. It connotes past and future as well as present. The sense of the Aorist can be shown most simply in the crude English expression 'shit happens.' It doesn't just happen now; it has always happened and it always will. Turkey is the ancient, empoverished, embattled city of Kars, writ large, with its "endless wars, rebellions, massacres and atrocities." Shit just keeps happening.
The American version hasn't been written yet but it's long overdue.
February 17, 2020
The expatriate poet Ka returns to his native Turkey ostensibly to investigate a growing number of suicides among "head scarf girls" for an article in a German newspaper, but actually to reconnect with the beautiful divorcee Ipek whom he knew in college. While there, he is caught up in religious and political intrigue.
I thought the book was too long, and the characters didn't interest me much, but I really liked the way Nobel prize winner Pamuk creates the atmosphere of the small city of Kars (and its many kinds of people) during a great snowstorm. I also liked the way he portrays the Islamists of Turkish culture--and the secular revolutionaries and artists as well--as fiercely Romantic individualists who are angry at the West--above all other things--because we refuse to recognize and respect the individuality of their religious passion.
August 9, 2020
鈥淚t was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world.鈥�
My first foray into Pamuk territory, Snow is a book about an exiled poet returning to his hometown under the pretense of writing a journalistic article on a suicide epidemic. In his hometown of Kars, our poet encounters snow: a snowfall that changes things for him forever.
A blizzard
A military coup
A theatrical massacre
Encounters with love and betrayal
Violent fundamentalists and their pride
And, a man who has found poetry within himself
Here we have a book where there is a lot happening. I won't say that it is fast-paced as it takes time to finally pace up but once it does, the drama and the surge of events catch you off-guard. In hindsight, the book is very relevant considering the recent failed coup in Turkey in 2016. I found the drama to be a bit overbearing at times and the scenes can have an absurdist element to it that doesn't come very naturally from Pamuk. Yet, I found the book to be a refreshing read. I'll be looking forward to reading more from the writer.
My first foray into Pamuk territory, Snow is a book about an exiled poet returning to his hometown under the pretense of writing a journalistic article on a suicide epidemic. In his hometown of Kars, our poet encounters snow: a snowfall that changes things for him forever.
A blizzard
A military coup
A theatrical massacre
Encounters with love and betrayal
Violent fundamentalists and their pride
And, a man who has found poetry within himself
Here we have a book where there is a lot happening. I won't say that it is fast-paced as it takes time to finally pace up but once it does, the drama and the surge of events catch you off-guard. In hindsight, the book is very relevant considering the recent failed coup in Turkey in 2016. I found the drama to be a bit overbearing at times and the scenes can have an absurdist element to it that doesn't come very naturally from Pamuk. Yet, I found the book to be a refreshing read. I'll be looking forward to reading more from the writer.
June 22, 2022
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January 22, 2021
Snow
by Orhan Pamuk is literary fiction that brings some tough themes to the reader. Political intrigue, philosophy, romance, secularism, religious fanaticism, East-West relations, radicalism, Western ideals, suicide, murder, and torture are all explored in this novel.
Ka is a Turkish poet who has recently returned to Turkey from Germany after 12 years as a political exile. While he comes back for his mother鈥檚 funeral, he also heard that a girlfriend has recently divorced her husband and heads to Kars, their home town. He arrives during a blizzard and the roads and trains are closed. Ka tells people that he is in town as a journalist to do stories on the municipal elections and on the young women who have been committing suicide in Kars. What happens next is somewhat eventful, but also very introspective.
Unfortunately, Ka is an annoying character and very immature for his age. The star character is the city itself. Kars is an actual city in northeast Turkey. Through the novel, we learn something of its history. Due to its location, the city has had a turbulent past and is something of a fusion of nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities. The world-building was fantastic and I was able to clearly picture the snowbound city. The story line had great potential and does reflect on some contemporary issues, but felt more like vignettes than a cohesive novel.
While this book is much more about telling than showing during a large part of it, readers do get glimpses of poverty, hopelessness, anger, regrets, freedom of thought, the loss of innocence, and loneliness, and the search for happiness along with the other themes mentioned above. It is researched well and reasonably well-written, but somewhat slow.
If you enjoy politics, learning about other countries and cultures, and/or slice of life novels, then this may be one you wish to consider. This book is very relevant to today.
Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own and are not biased in any way.
Ka is a Turkish poet who has recently returned to Turkey from Germany after 12 years as a political exile. While he comes back for his mother鈥檚 funeral, he also heard that a girlfriend has recently divorced her husband and heads to Kars, their home town. He arrives during a blizzard and the roads and trains are closed. Ka tells people that he is in town as a journalist to do stories on the municipal elections and on the young women who have been committing suicide in Kars. What happens next is somewhat eventful, but also very introspective.
Unfortunately, Ka is an annoying character and very immature for his age. The star character is the city itself. Kars is an actual city in northeast Turkey. Through the novel, we learn something of its history. Due to its location, the city has had a turbulent past and is something of a fusion of nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities. The world-building was fantastic and I was able to clearly picture the snowbound city. The story line had great potential and does reflect on some contemporary issues, but felt more like vignettes than a cohesive novel.
While this book is much more about telling than showing during a large part of it, readers do get glimpses of poverty, hopelessness, anger, regrets, freedom of thought, the loss of innocence, and loneliness, and the search for happiness along with the other themes mentioned above. It is researched well and reasonably well-written, but somewhat slow.
If you enjoy politics, learning about other countries and cultures, and/or slice of life novels, then this may be one you wish to consider. This book is very relevant to today.
Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own and are not biased in any way.
May 29, 2018
Pamuk's description of the delicate (and frequently upset) balance between secular and religious fanaticism in modern Turkey is a gripping story. It is told from a pseudo-autobiographical viewpoint (like DFW's The Pale King) and follows the (mis)adventures of the exiled poet Ka in his return to a town visited in his youth near the Armenian and Georgian borders of eastern Anatolia. The characters are drawn in a deeply compelling manner and there is so much happening that one is surprised at the relatively short lapse of time covered by the events in the book. While primarily a narrative, it sheds essential light on the struggles against radical Islam and is even more revelant now in light of the failed coup in Turkey in July 2016.
March 16, 2021
This novel has won a zillion prizes, and has received deafening international acclaim for the way it takes on the "clash of the Islamic fundamentalist East & secular West while retaining the humanity of its characters." I DISAGREE.
The book starts out fine, but it devolves into this really odd stream-of-consciousness craziness that feels like a fever dream and makes little sense of events at the end. In addition, the narrator keeps telling you what鈥檚 going to happen 鈥� big stuff, like deaths, etc. 鈥� and if it was supposed to focus me and keep me from being distracted wondering what was going to happen, it did the exact opposite. I ended up skimming the last third because I was so annoyed with how all plot tension was gone, the protagonist was quickly becoming a snivelly annoyance, and 鈥� here鈥檚 my main beef 鈥� no poems. Ka鈥檚 whole character hinges on the fact that he鈥檚 been blocked for all his years in the West, and when he comes 鈥渉ome鈥� he has this rush of nineteen poems that just flow out of him. A great deal of time is spent talking about them and dissecting them, but because the green notebook he wrote them in is never found, we never get to actually read them. I find this to be a cheap, lame, cheater literary trick that shirks responsibility. The plot structure even would have allowed at least one poem to be printed, but why couldn鈥檛 Pamuk have done even that?
The one thing that struck me was listening to characters wrestle with the idea of God and His relationship to life, and even that was presented as either fanaticism or a mind-salve for miserable people 鈥� nothing joyful or life-affirming.
The book starts out fine, but it devolves into this really odd stream-of-consciousness craziness that feels like a fever dream and makes little sense of events at the end. In addition, the narrator keeps telling you what鈥檚 going to happen 鈥� big stuff, like deaths, etc. 鈥� and if it was supposed to focus me and keep me from being distracted wondering what was going to happen, it did the exact opposite. I ended up skimming the last third because I was so annoyed with how all plot tension was gone, the protagonist was quickly becoming a snivelly annoyance, and 鈥� here鈥檚 my main beef 鈥� no poems. Ka鈥檚 whole character hinges on the fact that he鈥檚 been blocked for all his years in the West, and when he comes 鈥渉ome鈥� he has this rush of nineteen poems that just flow out of him. A great deal of time is spent talking about them and dissecting them, but because the green notebook he wrote them in is never found, we never get to actually read them. I find this to be a cheap, lame, cheater literary trick that shirks responsibility. The plot structure even would have allowed at least one poem to be printed, but why couldn鈥檛 Pamuk have done even that?
The one thing that struck me was listening to characters wrestle with the idea of God and His relationship to life, and even that was presented as either fanaticism or a mind-salve for miserable people 鈥� nothing joyful or life-affirming.
March 14, 2018
Orhan Pamuk'un -bence- yazarl谋k kariyerindeki d枚n眉m noktalar谋ndan biri olan, 2002 y谋l谋nda 莽谋kan Kafkaesk bir siyasi roman. Kitab谋n tam 莽谋kt谋臒谋 y谋ldan itibaren T眉rkiye siyaseti e艧ine az rastlan谋r bir bi莽imde kimlik olarak tam tersine d枚nse de, ki艧ilik olarak 莽ok de臒i艧medi臒ini g枚rmek i莽in de g眉zel bir eser.
Edebiyat siyasetten 枚nce gelir, 枚nce edebiyat谋 konu艧al谋m. Orhan Pamuk T眉rkiye'de s枚yledikleri pek ciddiye al谋nmayan, 莽ok konu艧ulan ama hi莽 dinlenmeyen biri olsa da, her zaman toplumu analiz etme, tan谋ma, anlama i艧ine 枚nem vermi艧tir ve t眉m kitaplar谋nda da bunlar谋n izlerini g枚r眉r眉z.
Ben Orhan Pamuk'un yazarl谋臒谋n谋 kabaca 眉莽e ay谋rabilece臒imizi d眉艧眉n眉yorum, ilk d枚nemi, yani ilk 眉莽 eseri Cevdet Bey ve O臒ullar谋, (bu arada Orhan Pamuk siyasi bir roman yazmaya ba艧lam谋艧, sonra darbe olunca yar谋m kalm谋艧t谋r, kitapta da darbe oldu臒u i莽in. Kar ile ne kadar alakal谋 merak ediyorum) Sessiz Ev ve Beyaz Kale yazar谋n tarz谋n谋 bulmaya 莽al谋艧t谋臒谋 romanlar ve bunlarda Orhan Pamuk'un T眉rkiye sosyolojisini arka planda i艧ledi臒ini g枚r眉r眉z.
陌kinci d枚nemi, kendi tarz谋n谋 buldu臒u ve benim en sevdi臒im d枚nemi. Kara Kitap, Yeni Hayat, Benim Ad谋m K谋rm谋z谋 romanlar谋nda g枚r眉yoruz bunu ve deneysel, okuyucuyu zorlayan (bence 枚yle de臒il ama insanlar zorlan谋yor garip bir 艧ekilde) bir tarz谋 var. Burada yine do臒u-bat谋 莽at谋艧mas谋n谋n m眉thi艧 bir 艧ekilde i艧lendi臒ini g枚r眉yoruz, ki ben bu mevzunun 眉st眉ne kafa yorulmadan T眉rkiye'nin anla艧谋lamayaca臒谋n谋 d眉艧眉n眉yorum.
脺莽眉nc眉 d枚nemi, Kar ile ba艧layan ve K谋rm谋z谋 Sa莽l谋 Kad谋na kadar gelen, deneyselli臒in g枚rece azald谋臒谋, dilin g枚rece basitle艧ti臒i ve toplumla ilgili meselelerin 莽ok daha g眉莽l眉 bir 艧ekilde i艧lendi臒i d枚nem. Masumiyet M眉zesi bir a艧k roman谋, evet, ama ayn谋 zamanda yak谋n tarihin, ahlak kurallar谋n谋n, T眉rkiye'de kad谋n olman谋n da alttan alta i艧lendi臒i bir roman. Orhan Pamuk'un "陌lk feminist roman谋m" dedi臒i Kafamda Bir Tuhafl谋k, T眉rkiye'de pek ses getirmedi, ama Orhan Pamuk'un yaln谋zca b眉y眉k bir edebiyat莽谋 olmad谋臒谋n谋n kan谋t谋. Konya'dan 陌stanbul'a gelen s谋radan bir bozac谋n谋n, yani muhafazakar bir Ak Partili'nin hik芒yesi. Sek眉lerler ile m眉tedeyyin kesimin ileti艧iminin tamamen koptu臒u, kimsenin birbirini dinlemedi臒i, anlamad谋臒谋 bir d枚nemde, sek眉lerlerin i莽inden biri 莽谋k谋p "Ben muhafazakar birine 艧efkatle yakla艧arak onu anlamak istiyorum," diyor. Bunun ne kadar 枚nemli oldu臒u elbet bir g眉n anla艧谋lacakt谋r, ama bu kitap hak etti臒i de臒eri kesinlikle g枚rmedi. Ayn谋 艧ekilde K谋rm谋z谋 Sa莽l谋 Kad谋n da, bireysellik ile cemaate dahil olmak aras谋ndaki farklar谋 tarihsel olarak i艧liyor. Ben bunun da T眉rkiye toplumunu anlaman谋n en 枚nemli basama臒谋 oldu臒unu d眉艧眉n眉yorum. 脟眉nk眉 b眉t眉n hareketlerimizi, d眉艧眉nme bi莽imimizi belirleyen esas 艧eyin bu ayr谋m oldu臒unu d眉艧眉n眉yorum. 陌艧in esas 莽arp谋c谋 taraf谋 da
bunu bir tarafa Oidipus'u, bir tarafa R眉stem ile S眉hrab'谋 koyarak yap谋yor. Yani 眉莽 g眉nl眉k bir mesele olmad谋臒谋n谋 anlat谋yor. K谋rm谋z谋 Sa莽l谋 Kad谋n'da da T眉rkiye'de kad谋n olma meselesini g枚r眉yoruz.
Orhan Pamuk her zaman i莽inde ya艧ad谋臒谋m谋z toplumu anlamaya 莽al谋艧m谋艧, tek tek bizlerin meydana getirdi臒i, ama ayn谋 艧ekilde tek tek bizi meydana getiren 艧eyi 莽枚z眉mlemeye 莽al谋艧m谋艧. Bilhassa son d枚nemlerinde bu meseleyi ciddi ciddi dert etti臒ini d眉艧眉n眉yorum. Kar'谋n da bu perspektiften okunmas谋 gerekti臒ini d眉艧眉n眉yorum, b枚yle okunursa kitap hakk谋n谋 bulacakt谋r.
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Kar'da 艦air Ka'n谋n y谋llarca bat谋da kald谋ktan sonra bir anda siyasetin tam ortas谋na, Kars'a d眉艧眉艧眉n眉, yolunu bulma 莽abas谋n谋 okuyoruz. Siyasal 陌slamc谋larla da g枚r眉艧眉yor, Kemalistlerle de. 陌nsanlar谋n cemaatlere nas谋l kat谋ld谋臒谋n谋 da g枚r眉yoruz, bir darbe yapman谋n ne kadar kolay oldu臒unu da. Ayn谋 mesafeden iki taraf谋 da g枚r眉yor, iki taraf谋 da ele艧tiriyor, analiz ediyor. Ve daha 莽ok onlar谋n i莽indeki masumiyeti, 莽ocuksu taraf谋 ortaya 莽谋kar谋yor. Masumiyet M眉zesi'nin masumiyetinin nereden geldi臒i sorusuna, "Birlikte, hi莽 konu艧madan dalg谋n dalg谋n televizyona bakabilmenin masumiyeti bu" diyordu Orhan Pamuk. Kar'da da, i艧kenceci Mit'莽isi de, katil siyasal islamc谋s谋 da, hapse girmi艧 ya艧l谋 solcu da oturuyor ve o televizyonu, bir pembe dizi olan Marianna'y谋 izliyor. Onlar谋n safl谋臒谋n谋, masumiyetini kitab谋n tamam谋nda g枚rebiliyoruz.
Yine birey-cemaat ikilemini g枚r眉yoruz ve bence Orhan Pamuk'un dile getirdi臒i en 枚nemli tespitlerden biri de bununla alakal谋: T眉rkiye'de (ve muhtemelen t眉m d眉nyada) Allah'a inanman谋n, bir sosyal s谋n谋fa dahil olma kayg谋s谋yla alakal谋 oldu臒unu s枚yl眉yor Pamuk. T眉rkiye'den Tayyip Erdo臒an nas谋l 莽谋k谋yor sorusunun cevab谋 bu tespitle ili艧kili. Erdo臒an'谋n daha ge莽en g眉n s枚yledi臒i "Dine g眉ncelleme" meselesini de bu perspektiften yorumlamak m眉mk眉n.
Ayn谋 艧ekilde do臒u-bat谋 aras谋ndaki 莽at谋艧may谋 g枚r眉yoruz. Bat谋n谋n demokrasi elbisesini do臒ulu bir bedene giydirdi臒imizde olan 艧eyleri g枚r眉yoruz.
Kar'谋 okumadan T眉rkiye'yi anlamak ne kadar m眉mk眉n bilmiyorum. T眉rkiye'nin umutsuzlu臒unu, insanlar谋n b枚l眉nm眉艧l眉臒眉n眉 ve b枚l眉nm眉艧l眉臒眉n眉n sebeplerini, d眉nyaya bak谋艧 a莽谋lar谋n谋n farkl谋l谋臒谋n谋 g枚r眉yoruz. Bu kitapta T眉rkiye'nin b眉t眉n meseleleri var sanki. Yaz谋lacak, s枚ylenecek daha 莽ok 艧ey var. Kar'谋 anlatmak zor. Bu kitab谋 okuyunca birinin neden siyasal islamc谋 (her ne kadar bug眉n bu tabiri kullanmasak da) oldu臒unu anlayabiliyoruz ve bunu s眉rekli birilerini 枚tekile艧tirmeye 莽ok al谋艧t谋臒谋m谋z halde yapabiliyoruz.
Edebiyat siyasetten 枚nce gelir, 枚nce edebiyat谋 konu艧al谋m. Orhan Pamuk T眉rkiye'de s枚yledikleri pek ciddiye al谋nmayan, 莽ok konu艧ulan ama hi莽 dinlenmeyen biri olsa da, her zaman toplumu analiz etme, tan谋ma, anlama i艧ine 枚nem vermi艧tir ve t眉m kitaplar谋nda da bunlar谋n izlerini g枚r眉r眉z.
Ben Orhan Pamuk'un yazarl谋臒谋n谋 kabaca 眉莽e ay谋rabilece臒imizi d眉艧眉n眉yorum, ilk d枚nemi, yani ilk 眉莽 eseri Cevdet Bey ve O臒ullar谋, (bu arada Orhan Pamuk siyasi bir roman yazmaya ba艧lam谋艧, sonra darbe olunca yar谋m kalm谋艧t谋r, kitapta da darbe oldu臒u i莽in. Kar ile ne kadar alakal谋 merak ediyorum) Sessiz Ev ve Beyaz Kale yazar谋n tarz谋n谋 bulmaya 莽al谋艧t谋臒谋 romanlar ve bunlarda Orhan Pamuk'un T眉rkiye sosyolojisini arka planda i艧ledi臒ini g枚r眉r眉z.
陌kinci d枚nemi, kendi tarz谋n谋 buldu臒u ve benim en sevdi臒im d枚nemi. Kara Kitap, Yeni Hayat, Benim Ad谋m K谋rm谋z谋 romanlar谋nda g枚r眉yoruz bunu ve deneysel, okuyucuyu zorlayan (bence 枚yle de臒il ama insanlar zorlan谋yor garip bir 艧ekilde) bir tarz谋 var. Burada yine do臒u-bat谋 莽at谋艧mas谋n谋n m眉thi艧 bir 艧ekilde i艧lendi臒ini g枚r眉yoruz, ki ben bu mevzunun 眉st眉ne kafa yorulmadan T眉rkiye'nin anla艧谋lamayaca臒谋n谋 d眉艧眉n眉yorum.
脺莽眉nc眉 d枚nemi, Kar ile ba艧layan ve K谋rm谋z谋 Sa莽l谋 Kad谋na kadar gelen, deneyselli臒in g枚rece azald谋臒谋, dilin g枚rece basitle艧ti臒i ve toplumla ilgili meselelerin 莽ok daha g眉莽l眉 bir 艧ekilde i艧lendi臒i d枚nem. Masumiyet M眉zesi bir a艧k roman谋, evet, ama ayn谋 zamanda yak谋n tarihin, ahlak kurallar谋n谋n, T眉rkiye'de kad谋n olman谋n da alttan alta i艧lendi臒i bir roman. Orhan Pamuk'un "陌lk feminist roman谋m" dedi臒i Kafamda Bir Tuhafl谋k, T眉rkiye'de pek ses getirmedi, ama Orhan Pamuk'un yaln谋zca b眉y眉k bir edebiyat莽谋 olmad谋臒谋n谋n kan谋t谋. Konya'dan 陌stanbul'a gelen s谋radan bir bozac谋n谋n, yani muhafazakar bir Ak Partili'nin hik芒yesi. Sek眉lerler ile m眉tedeyyin kesimin ileti艧iminin tamamen koptu臒u, kimsenin birbirini dinlemedi臒i, anlamad谋臒谋 bir d枚nemde, sek眉lerlerin i莽inden biri 莽谋k谋p "Ben muhafazakar birine 艧efkatle yakla艧arak onu anlamak istiyorum," diyor. Bunun ne kadar 枚nemli oldu臒u elbet bir g眉n anla艧谋lacakt谋r, ama bu kitap hak etti臒i de臒eri kesinlikle g枚rmedi. Ayn谋 艧ekilde K谋rm谋z谋 Sa莽l谋 Kad谋n da, bireysellik ile cemaate dahil olmak aras谋ndaki farklar谋 tarihsel olarak i艧liyor. Ben bunun da T眉rkiye toplumunu anlaman谋n en 枚nemli basama臒谋 oldu臒unu d眉艧眉n眉yorum. 脟眉nk眉 b眉t眉n hareketlerimizi, d眉艧眉nme bi莽imimizi belirleyen esas 艧eyin bu ayr谋m oldu臒unu d眉艧眉n眉yorum. 陌艧in esas 莽arp谋c谋 taraf谋 da
bunu bir tarafa Oidipus'u, bir tarafa R眉stem ile S眉hrab'谋 koyarak yap谋yor. Yani 眉莽 g眉nl眉k bir mesele olmad谋臒谋n谋 anlat谋yor. K谋rm谋z谋 Sa莽l谋 Kad谋n'da da T眉rkiye'de kad谋n olma meselesini g枚r眉yoruz.
Orhan Pamuk her zaman i莽inde ya艧ad谋臒谋m谋z toplumu anlamaya 莽al谋艧m谋艧, tek tek bizlerin meydana getirdi臒i, ama ayn谋 艧ekilde tek tek bizi meydana getiren 艧eyi 莽枚z眉mlemeye 莽al谋艧m谋艧. Bilhassa son d枚nemlerinde bu meseleyi ciddi ciddi dert etti臒ini d眉艧眉n眉yorum. Kar'谋n da bu perspektiften okunmas谋 gerekti臒ini d眉艧眉n眉yorum, b枚yle okunursa kitap hakk谋n谋 bulacakt谋r.
***
Kar'da 艦air Ka'n谋n y谋llarca bat谋da kald谋ktan sonra bir anda siyasetin tam ortas谋na, Kars'a d眉艧眉艧眉n眉, yolunu bulma 莽abas谋n谋 okuyoruz. Siyasal 陌slamc谋larla da g枚r眉艧眉yor, Kemalistlerle de. 陌nsanlar谋n cemaatlere nas谋l kat谋ld谋臒谋n谋 da g枚r眉yoruz, bir darbe yapman谋n ne kadar kolay oldu臒unu da. Ayn谋 mesafeden iki taraf谋 da g枚r眉yor, iki taraf谋 da ele艧tiriyor, analiz ediyor. Ve daha 莽ok onlar谋n i莽indeki masumiyeti, 莽ocuksu taraf谋 ortaya 莽谋kar谋yor. Masumiyet M眉zesi'nin masumiyetinin nereden geldi臒i sorusuna, "Birlikte, hi莽 konu艧madan dalg谋n dalg谋n televizyona bakabilmenin masumiyeti bu" diyordu Orhan Pamuk. Kar'da da, i艧kenceci Mit'莽isi de, katil siyasal islamc谋s谋 da, hapse girmi艧 ya艧l谋 solcu da oturuyor ve o televizyonu, bir pembe dizi olan Marianna'y谋 izliyor. Onlar谋n safl谋臒谋n谋, masumiyetini kitab谋n tamam谋nda g枚rebiliyoruz.
Yine birey-cemaat ikilemini g枚r眉yoruz ve bence Orhan Pamuk'un dile getirdi臒i en 枚nemli tespitlerden biri de bununla alakal谋: T眉rkiye'de (ve muhtemelen t眉m d眉nyada) Allah'a inanman谋n, bir sosyal s谋n谋fa dahil olma kayg谋s谋yla alakal谋 oldu臒unu s枚yl眉yor Pamuk. T眉rkiye'den Tayyip Erdo臒an nas谋l 莽谋k谋yor sorusunun cevab谋 bu tespitle ili艧kili. Erdo臒an'谋n daha ge莽en g眉n s枚yledi臒i "Dine g眉ncelleme" meselesini de bu perspektiften yorumlamak m眉mk眉n.
Ayn谋 艧ekilde do臒u-bat谋 aras谋ndaki 莽at谋艧may谋 g枚r眉yoruz. Bat谋n谋n demokrasi elbisesini do臒ulu bir bedene giydirdi臒imizde olan 艧eyleri g枚r眉yoruz.
Kar'谋 okumadan T眉rkiye'yi anlamak ne kadar m眉mk眉n bilmiyorum. T眉rkiye'nin umutsuzlu臒unu, insanlar谋n b枚l眉nm眉艧l眉臒眉n眉 ve b枚l眉nm眉艧l眉臒眉n眉n sebeplerini, d眉nyaya bak谋艧 a莽谋lar谋n谋n farkl谋l谋臒谋n谋 g枚r眉yoruz. Bu kitapta T眉rkiye'nin b眉t眉n meseleleri var sanki. Yaz谋lacak, s枚ylenecek daha 莽ok 艧ey var. Kar'谋 anlatmak zor. Bu kitab谋 okuyunca birinin neden siyasal islamc谋 (her ne kadar bug眉n bu tabiri kullanmasak da) oldu臒unu anlayabiliyoruz ve bunu s眉rekli birilerini 枚tekile艧tirmeye 莽ok al谋艧t谋臒谋m谋z halde yapabiliyoruz.
January 5, 2009
I read a few sample pages of Snow in the bookstore, drawn by its blurry, snowy cover; drawn by a recent New York Times review; drawn by its non-westernized roots in Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk; drawn, too, by curiosity at this recent Nobel Prize winner for literature. The first few pages mesmerized me, the scene of a Turkish poet riding a bus through the snow capturing my imagination even as I left the bookstore.
"The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. If this were the beginning of a poem, he would have called the thing he felt inside him the silence of snow..."
Snow never stops falling throughout this lengthy novel, and indeed becomes a barometer of the human condition. "Snow" is also the title of a poetry collection the Turkish poet, Ka, writes over its time span. A diagram of a snowflake is his diagram of his core self, with branches into imagination, reason and memory. As snow gathers over the events of the story, it becomes at times a blizzard, at other times a gentle white blanketing over a trampled earth.
Ka is traveling to the city of Kars to write an article about an epidemic of suicides among young Turkish women. As the force of westernization has entered the predominantly Muslim city, these young women have been "freed" to discard their head scarves. Their religious beliefs, however, are such that to bare their heads in public is more than they can bear--they would rather die. While investigating the suicides, Ka meets recently divorced Ipek, and he is instantly enthralled. The ensuing story is as much one of political rebellion as it is love story, complete with executions, betrayals, love found and love lost, and mysteries never quite solved.
I've grown up on European literature, with its dense and intricate plotlines, stories with no particular rush to reach conclusion and no linear path in getting there, in contrast to the fast-paced western literature with spare plotlines, quick action, and neatly wrapped-up endings. Of course, there are exceptions, but when I am in the mood to sink deep into a multi-layered tome, I choose non-western literature, and when I want a quick tap-dance of literary skill, I choose American literature. Each has its own pleasures. Snow is no exception. I enjoyed this blizzard, even if at times I lost sight of the path for all the white stuff.
Even the love story reminded me of the difference in the expression of love in different cultures, with Ka's falling into something nearing a worshipful obsession, immersing himself whole into the object of his affection--while a westernized love story would be more geared toward seduction and conquest, less about the dance of courtship and romance. There is surrender to the heart with nothing left in reserve in non-western literature that fascinates me. Do or die. Love or leave. For this reason alone, I enjoy reading literature by a variety of international authors; each provides a view into a varied perspective and life sense.
In any culture, however, the human heart breaks for the same reasons. We read of Ka's devastation at learning his beloved has betrayed him with another--from this heartbreak is seeded a suspicion of murder (did Ka or didn't he?). The scene of confrontation between Ka and Ipek is perhaps the novel's most moving: hearts are shattered even as they continue to find comfort in each other's arms, a fatal mix of love threaded with hatred, and finally released by the chill of apathy. Pamuk writes of the complexities of love as far more baffling than reason alone might explain, and each time as unique as a snowflake.
Snow is not a quick read. Nor is it an easy one. Like Ka's love, it requires immersion and a certain degree of surrender. It is a skilled and often marvelous novel, even if I am not convinced it is worthy of the Nobel. I would say not. Yet it is worth the effort to move through this snowfall, if only for the occasional moment of sheer literary mastery.
"The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. If this were the beginning of a poem, he would have called the thing he felt inside him the silence of snow..."
Snow never stops falling throughout this lengthy novel, and indeed becomes a barometer of the human condition. "Snow" is also the title of a poetry collection the Turkish poet, Ka, writes over its time span. A diagram of a snowflake is his diagram of his core self, with branches into imagination, reason and memory. As snow gathers over the events of the story, it becomes at times a blizzard, at other times a gentle white blanketing over a trampled earth.
Ka is traveling to the city of Kars to write an article about an epidemic of suicides among young Turkish women. As the force of westernization has entered the predominantly Muslim city, these young women have been "freed" to discard their head scarves. Their religious beliefs, however, are such that to bare their heads in public is more than they can bear--they would rather die. While investigating the suicides, Ka meets recently divorced Ipek, and he is instantly enthralled. The ensuing story is as much one of political rebellion as it is love story, complete with executions, betrayals, love found and love lost, and mysteries never quite solved.
I've grown up on European literature, with its dense and intricate plotlines, stories with no particular rush to reach conclusion and no linear path in getting there, in contrast to the fast-paced western literature with spare plotlines, quick action, and neatly wrapped-up endings. Of course, there are exceptions, but when I am in the mood to sink deep into a multi-layered tome, I choose non-western literature, and when I want a quick tap-dance of literary skill, I choose American literature. Each has its own pleasures. Snow is no exception. I enjoyed this blizzard, even if at times I lost sight of the path for all the white stuff.
Even the love story reminded me of the difference in the expression of love in different cultures, with Ka's falling into something nearing a worshipful obsession, immersing himself whole into the object of his affection--while a westernized love story would be more geared toward seduction and conquest, less about the dance of courtship and romance. There is surrender to the heart with nothing left in reserve in non-western literature that fascinates me. Do or die. Love or leave. For this reason alone, I enjoy reading literature by a variety of international authors; each provides a view into a varied perspective and life sense.
In any culture, however, the human heart breaks for the same reasons. We read of Ka's devastation at learning his beloved has betrayed him with another--from this heartbreak is seeded a suspicion of murder (did Ka or didn't he?). The scene of confrontation between Ka and Ipek is perhaps the novel's most moving: hearts are shattered even as they continue to find comfort in each other's arms, a fatal mix of love threaded with hatred, and finally released by the chill of apathy. Pamuk writes of the complexities of love as far more baffling than reason alone might explain, and each time as unique as a snowflake.
Snow is not a quick read. Nor is it an easy one. Like Ka's love, it requires immersion and a certain degree of surrender. It is a skilled and often marvelous novel, even if I am not convinced it is worthy of the Nobel. I would say not. Yet it is worth the effort to move through this snowfall, if only for the occasional moment of sheer literary mastery.
May 25, 2015
乇賵丕賷丞 賯丿賷乇丞. 丕爻鬲丨賯鬲 賰賱 爻丕毓丞 兀賲囟賷鬲賴丕 賲毓賴丕. 丕賱鬲噩乇賷亘 丕賱匕賷 賲丕乇爻賴 亘丕賲賵賯 賴賳丕 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 亘丕賱氐賵鬲 丕賱毓賱賷賲貙 丕賱匕賷 賴賵 賮賷 丕賱亘丕胤賳 氐賵鬲賹 匕丕鬲賷貙 毓馗賷賲丞. 賵丕賱卮禺賵氐 丕賱賲鬲乇丕賵丨丞 賲丕 亘賷賳 賯胤亘賷賳 賲鬲囟丕丿賷賳貙 丕賱卮禺賵氐 丕賱賲乇賰亘丞 賵丕賱睾賳賷丞 賵丕賱禺氐亘丞.. 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱賲乇亍 兀賳 賷賰鬲亘 賱兀噩賱賴丕 賰鬲亘賸丕.
December 23, 2018
Say you pay 100 dollars for good seats at a show. You're so excited and full of anticipation. You sit down in your seat and hear the familiar strains of the instruments tuning.
Only for the ensemble to sit, instruments in their hand doing absolutely nothing for 4 minutes and 33 seconds! 4 minutes and 33 seconds of COUGHING, fidgeting and someone shouting "When are they going to start?"
This is how this book is to me. You think it's going to be brilliant because it won a Nobel prize. Surely it should be excellent? The best book you've read full of interesting characters that come alive on page and draw you into the book.
Well, you're not going to get that from this book. You'll get the narrator going on and on about snow, about how beautiful Ipek is and even what seems like it would be interesting; the conflict between religion and secularism, women's rights and poetry IT'S NOT! Because this book focuses on the dull, bland main character Ka.
Also, worse crime of all AUTHOR SELF INSERTION!
Trying to read this book again. It still sucks! I still can't stand it! The writing. The characters! Everything about it annoys me. I thought Saints by Orson Scott Card was annoying.
6/8/15
Making the horrible mistake of trying to read this book again. It's awful. Bad enough you'd die of alcohol poisoning drinking the weakest alcohol if you drank every time you saw the word snow in this book but I am at a part where an extremist takes a gun to a principal and goes on and on about head scarves and how girls wearing headscarves will keep them from being raped or harass. He goes on about how headscarves help a man respect a woman.
But you should respect women as people in the first place and NOT rape or harass them whether they're in a bikini or naked or covered from head to toe! Men are not evil rape beasts who have to harass every woman they see unless she covers her hair.
UGH! I despise this book!
Another thing that sucks about this book is it's a sausage fest. It's like all the interesting stuff about these young girls gets pushed aside and no one cares about them. The rest of the women and girls in this are just props or love interests to obsess over. Not real complete people. Avoid this like a plague. A plague would be easier to deal with than reading this damn book.
December 21, 2018
So because I clearly hate myself i read this book again.
It's still terrible.
How is every single character in this book obnoxious and annoying? Every woman just exists as some man's fantasy. Men in this book think they are in love because they see a pretty woman and go *boing* you are not in love, Ka, you're just horny! You don't even know this woman. You re like, come with me to Frankfurt. Ok, and what will you do for her? She has to leave her elderly father which you made go out on a dangerous mission so you could have bad sex with his daughter! You just want a mother you can make love to! All through the book Ka sees people get killed, sees the body of teenagers and all he can think about is sex with Ipek!
Then you have the narrator who is the author inserted into this book. I swear the people of Kars, Turkey need to collectively kick his butt for how their town was portrayed by him. It's bad enough that in Saga Hazel knows things that make me go how do you know that, you were an infant and you weren't there but Saga has fascinating characters. This book doesn't. Especially the author who confesses his love to his own fictional woman.
Who does that
Why did this book win a Nobel prize? It pains me! The constant mention of snow. The conflicts that make me scream IF SHE WANTS TO WEAR HER HEAD SCARF LET HER WHY IS THIS EVEN AN ISSUE?! Don't marry your daughters off to icky old men. Being an atheist doesn't make you a bad person. Stop being so smug, Blue, you're not even supposed to have premarital sex, you are Muslim! And you had sex with 2 sisters and one sister's friend. Why the hell did they even like you so much?
How is it believable that this actor staged (heh) a coup like this? Over a dozen people get shot and everyone is so nonchalant about it all. It seems more dreamlike than realistic.
And what kind of a friend tells the entire world what kind of porn his friend liked? A real bro would delete his bro's browser history.
And even tho Orhan got one poem down we don't get to see it. We don't get to see any of these perfect poems Ka wrote and it angers me so much. Why mention them in the first place if they won't even actually be in the book? Or is it because the writer can't write poems or get a poet friend to write them for him?
Plodding through this book is like trying to walk through 5 feet of snow when you're 5 3 1/2. Unpleasant! And the SNOW gets into your shoes and your clothes and home is 3 miles away and it's still snowing and you're just going to drown in snow and freeze to death but that ok because at least you're not reading this awful book.
Also Ka is just an irritating incel
Only for the ensemble to sit, instruments in their hand doing absolutely nothing for 4 minutes and 33 seconds! 4 minutes and 33 seconds of COUGHING, fidgeting and someone shouting "When are they going to start?"
This is how this book is to me. You think it's going to be brilliant because it won a Nobel prize. Surely it should be excellent? The best book you've read full of interesting characters that come alive on page and draw you into the book.
Well, you're not going to get that from this book. You'll get the narrator going on and on about snow, about how beautiful Ipek is and even what seems like it would be interesting; the conflict between religion and secularism, women's rights and poetry IT'S NOT! Because this book focuses on the dull, bland main character Ka.
Also, worse crime of all AUTHOR SELF INSERTION!
Trying to read this book again. It still sucks! I still can't stand it! The writing. The characters! Everything about it annoys me. I thought Saints by Orson Scott Card was annoying.
6/8/15
Making the horrible mistake of trying to read this book again. It's awful. Bad enough you'd die of alcohol poisoning drinking the weakest alcohol if you drank every time you saw the word snow in this book but I am at a part where an extremist takes a gun to a principal and goes on and on about head scarves and how girls wearing headscarves will keep them from being raped or harass. He goes on about how headscarves help a man respect a woman.
But you should respect women as people in the first place and NOT rape or harass them whether they're in a bikini or naked or covered from head to toe! Men are not evil rape beasts who have to harass every woman they see unless she covers her hair.
UGH! I despise this book!
Another thing that sucks about this book is it's a sausage fest. It's like all the interesting stuff about these young girls gets pushed aside and no one cares about them. The rest of the women and girls in this are just props or love interests to obsess over. Not real complete people. Avoid this like a plague. A plague would be easier to deal with than reading this damn book.
December 21, 2018
So because I clearly hate myself i read this book again.
It's still terrible.
How is every single character in this book obnoxious and annoying? Every woman just exists as some man's fantasy. Men in this book think they are in love because they see a pretty woman and go *boing* you are not in love, Ka, you're just horny! You don't even know this woman. You re like, come with me to Frankfurt. Ok, and what will you do for her? She has to leave her elderly father which you made go out on a dangerous mission so you could have bad sex with his daughter! You just want a mother you can make love to! All through the book Ka sees people get killed, sees the body of teenagers and all he can think about is sex with Ipek!
Then you have the narrator who is the author inserted into this book. I swear the people of Kars, Turkey need to collectively kick his butt for how their town was portrayed by him. It's bad enough that in Saga Hazel knows things that make me go how do you know that, you were an infant and you weren't there but Saga has fascinating characters. This book doesn't. Especially the author who confesses his love to his own fictional woman.
Who does that
Why did this book win a Nobel prize? It pains me! The constant mention of snow. The conflicts that make me scream IF SHE WANTS TO WEAR HER HEAD SCARF LET HER WHY IS THIS EVEN AN ISSUE?! Don't marry your daughters off to icky old men. Being an atheist doesn't make you a bad person. Stop being so smug, Blue, you're not even supposed to have premarital sex, you are Muslim! And you had sex with 2 sisters and one sister's friend. Why the hell did they even like you so much?
How is it believable that this actor staged (heh) a coup like this? Over a dozen people get shot and everyone is so nonchalant about it all. It seems more dreamlike than realistic.
And what kind of a friend tells the entire world what kind of porn his friend liked? A real bro would delete his bro's browser history.
And even tho Orhan got one poem down we don't get to see it. We don't get to see any of these perfect poems Ka wrote and it angers me so much. Why mention them in the first place if they won't even actually be in the book? Or is it because the writer can't write poems or get a poet friend to write them for him?
Plodding through this book is like trying to walk through 5 feet of snow when you're 5 3 1/2. Unpleasant! And the SNOW gets into your shoes and your clothes and home is 3 miles away and it's still snowing and you're just going to drown in snow and freeze to death but that ok because at least you're not reading this awful book.
Also Ka is just an irritating incel
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 20, 2023
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卮禺氐蹖鬲 賲丨賵乇蹖 讴鬲丕亘貙 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賯丕亘賱 丿乇讴鈥屫臂屬� 丕賮乇丕丿蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲賳 亘丕 丌賳鈥屬囏� 賲賵丕噩賴 卮丿賴鈥屫з�. 趩乇丕 讴賴 亘丕 賵噩賵丿 丕爻賲 賵 乇爻賲卮貙 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 鬲乇讴鈥屬囏й屫� 乇丕 丿蹖丿. 鬲乇爻鈥屬囏� 賵 鬲賯賱丕鈥屬囏й屫� 乇丕. 丕賵 賮乇丿蹖 賲毓賲賵賱蹖 丕爻鬲 亘丕 賳蹖鬲鈥屬囏й� 禺賵亘 賵 诏丕賴蹖 禺賵丿禺賵丕賴丕賳賴 賵 賲孬賱 賴乇 賮乇丿 丿蹖诏乇蹖 亘乇 乇賵蹖 夭賲蹖賳貙 丌丿賲蹖 丕爻鬲 卮讴爻鬲鈥屫堌必�. 卮讴爻鬲鈥屫堌必� 丕夭 乇賵蹖丕賴丕蹖卮貙 丕賲丕 讴賲丕讴丕賳 丿乇 鬲賱丕卮 亘乇丕蹖 賳夭丿蹖讴蹖 亘賴 丌賳 鬲氐賵蹖乇 丿賱禺賵丕賴卮.
丕蹖賳 乇賲丕賳 丕賵賱蹖賳 賵 丌禺乇蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 爻蹖丕爻蹖 丕賵乇賴丕賳 倬丕賲賵讴 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇 丌賳 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲賴 鬲賲丕賲蹖 丿睾丿睾賴鈥屬囏й屫� 乇丕 亘诏賳噩丕賳丿. 丕夭 賳诏乇丕賳蹖鈥屬囏й� 爻蹖丕爻蹖鈥屫ж� 诏乇賮鬲賴 鬲丕 賲爻卅賱賴 毓卮賯貙 鬲亘毓蹖丿貙 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖貙 禺賵卮亘禺鬲蹖貙 丨爻丕丿鬲 賵 禺賵丿禺賵丕賴蹖貙 丨鬲蹖 賲匕賴亘貙 鬲毓氐亘 賵 丕賮乇丕胤 诏乇丕蹖蹖 賵 鬲毓賱蹖賯 賵 丿賵丿爻鬲诏蹖 賲賱鬲.
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 丿蹖丿 賲賳 丿丕乇丕蹖 趩賴丕乇 倬賱丕鬲 毓丕卮賯丕賳賴貙 噩丕賲毓賴鈥屫促嗀ж池з嗁囏� 賲匕賴亘蹖 毓賯蹖丿鬲蹖 賵 爻蹖丕爻蹖 丕爻鬲. 倬丕賲賵讴貙 亘蹖 賲乇夭亘賳丿蹖 賲卮禺氐貙 賲禺丕胤亘 乇丕 亘蹖賳 丕蹖賳 趩賴丕乇 賮囟丕 賲乇鬲亘丕 爻購乇 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 賵 蹖讴 趩丕乇趩賵亘 讴賱蹖 乇丕 丿乇 讴賲丕賱 丿丕卮鬲賳 禺乇丿賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏� 倬蹖卮 賲蹖鈥屫ㄘ必�.
亘丕 丕蹖賳鈥屬囐呝囏� 丿乇禺卮丕賳鈥屫臂屬� 亘禺卮 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕貙 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 讴卮蹖丿賳 爻乇賳賵卮鬲 睾賲鈥屫з嗂屫� 卮丕毓乇蹖 鬲亘毓蹖丿蹖 賵 鬲賳賴丕 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗁� 讴賴 賴賲賵丕乇賴 賮賴賲蹖丿賴 賳卮丿貙 毓卮賯 亘賴 丕賵 賵賮丕 賳讴乇丿 賵 丕夭 丿乇賵賳 匕乇賴 匕乇賴 丨賱 卮丿 賵 賮乇賵 乇蹖禺鬲. 鬲氐賵蹖乇蹖 亘賴 睾丕蹖鬲 爻賲亘賵賱蹖讴貙 鬲賱禺 賵 賲丕蹖賴 鬲兀爻賮.
亘爻蹖丕乇 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲 丕夭 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 卮禺氐蹖鈥屫з� 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賳賵蹖爻賲 讴賴 丿乇 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 丕亘乇蹖 賵 亘丕乇丕賳蹖 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘賮乇賵卮蹖 賵 賲鬲乇賵 禺賵丕賳丿賴 卮丿 賵 亘乇丕蹖 乇賴丕蹖蹖 丕夭 爻乇賲丕 賵 鬲賱禺蹖 丌賳 亘賴 趩丕蹖 賵 爻蹖诏丕乇 倬賳丕賴 賲蹖鈥屫①堌必� 賵 亘丕 賴乇 噩乇毓賴 丕夭 趩丕蹖 賵 賴乇 讴丕賲 丕夭 爻蹖诏丕乇賲 亘賴 丌賳 卮賴乇貙 亘賴 丌賳 丌丿賲鈥屬囏� 賵 亘蹖卮 丕夭 賴賲賴 亘賴 讴丕 亘賴 丌賳 卮丕毓乇 鬲亘毓蹖丿蹖 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┴必�.
亘丕 丕蹖賳鈥屬囐呝� 鬲賱禺蹖 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 賱匕鬲 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿賲 賳诏賴 賲蹖鈥屫ж辟� 賵 鬲賳賴丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳 丌賳 乇丕 丿賵爻鬲丕賳 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屬呝嗀� 倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
倬.賳 : 氐丿 丨蹖賮 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘丕 丕蹖賳 胤乇丨 噩賱丿 賵 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賳卮乇 亘賴 亘丕夭丕乇 丌賲丿 丕賲丕 爻丕賱鈥屬囏� 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丕賳丿賳 蹖讴 鬲乇噩賲賴鈥屰� 丿賯蹖賯 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕乇夭卮卮 乇丕 丿丕卮鬲.
讴鬲丕亘 丿丕乇丕蹖 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 賮乇丕賵丕賳蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲賲讴賳 丕爻鬲 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲賴 噩匕丕亘 賳亘丕卮丿 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 毓賲丿賴鈥屰� 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 蹖讴 亘丕夭賴鈥屰� 爻賴 趩賴丕乇 乇賵夭 賲蹖鈥屭柏必�.
倬丕賲賵讴 賴乇趩賳丿 亘蹖 乇賵丿乇亘丕蹖爻鬲蹖貙 丿乇 丕讴孬乇 讴丕乇賴丕蹖卮 丕胤賳丕亘 丿丕乇丿貙 亘丕 丕蹖賳鈥屬囐呝� 噩夭卅蹖丕鬲 賵 鬲賮氐蹖賱 丿丕爻鬲丕賳卮 乇丕 丿乇 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 賲賵丕賯毓 賮囟丕爻丕夭 賵 賲賮蹖丿 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗁� 丕賲丕 亘丕夭 賴賲 卮丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 毓丿賴鈥屫й� 禺爻鬲賴鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 亘丕卮丿.
賲賴乇 賴夭丕乇 賵 趩賴丕乇氐丿 賵 丿賵
September 3, 2007
I have to say, it's been a while since I liked a novel as much as this one and it's been even longer that I've had the chance to lie on a beach and read for a week, so I will say that you may want to take this re. Pamuk reminded me of what really defines a novel, what moves it beyond a series of events and into a world and Pamuk's Kars is certainly its own world, full of characters whose degree of nuance is exactly as deep as those in a real place--in life you don't know everyone well and so to should it be in a novel. But if what makes a novel a novel is the creation of a world, what makes a novel good is the creation of a tone, a space, a way of seeing the world that reaches outside and it is this quality which I really loved. It's hard to describe, and I think the Russians do it best, Gogol in particular, but Pamuk constantly maintains a funny sadness that is neither light nor depressing. I am sure there is a word for this in some language, but it is complete and it made me forget that I was reading at many points. However, it is also distinct enough that I can see how not everyone would love it. You have to read for the humor, indulge the poetry (this is not a veiled language reference, I mean the actual poetry in the text) and take the characters just seriously enough to care but not to mourn. So maybe, just to indulge my english teacher self once more, what makes a novel great is also this quality--it must be singular enough to be disliked and good enough to love.
November 14, 2024
It is not often as I close the pages of a book, I am choked up and in tears, as with the literary fiction masterpiece by Orhan Pamuk, Snow. This internationally acclaimed writer painstakingly explores the collision of Western values with Islamic fundamentalism, and this prescient book, published in 2005, could have been written today. Its truths are timeless with disparate yearnings for love and art and power and God. With an omniscient narrator, we come to know Kerim Alakusoglu known as Ka, after many years of political exile in Germany. Ka is a well-connected man and a poet when he returns to Istanbul for his mother鈥檚 funeral and then travels to the remote, impoverished, and provincial town of Kars near the Armenian border. There is a seemingly endless snowfall, the fiercest in memory, shutting all the roads and access to the town and to the modern and westernized world. Nationalists are stirring up hatred and tension. Kars feels increasingly cut off from the rest of the world and reality. Additionally, there has been a rash of suicides in young women forbidden to wear their head scarves that has stirred political and ethnic debate. Ka is also drawn into the maelstrom of a military coup underway to restrain the local rebels and bring them under control. Ka is also reunited with his beautiful former schoolmate Ipek as he entertains a possible romance and her returning with him to Germany as his wife.
Having been blocked for some time in his art, Ka is moved by the poems that are coming to him in this snowed-in remote area of Turkey as he records them in his green notebook as well as making numerous notes of his experiences and the people he encounters. The last of his nineteen poems, he entitles 鈥淭he Place Where the World Ends.鈥� The significance of the snow is present throughout the book creating a powerful metaphor with its attendant cleansing, silence, obliteration, and sleep as one witnesses the beauty and mystery of creation. Orhan Pamuk brings an understanding of people in this book as we feel the yearning, fears and the sadness of these characters, as well as hope. And this may be why Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2006.
Having been blocked for some time in his art, Ka is moved by the poems that are coming to him in this snowed-in remote area of Turkey as he records them in his green notebook as well as making numerous notes of his experiences and the people he encounters. The last of his nineteen poems, he entitles 鈥淭he Place Where the World Ends.鈥� The significance of the snow is present throughout the book creating a powerful metaphor with its attendant cleansing, silence, obliteration, and sleep as one witnesses the beauty and mystery of creation. Orhan Pamuk brings an understanding of people in this book as we feel the yearning, fears and the sadness of these characters, as well as hope. And this may be why Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2006.
鈥淎s he watched the snow fall outside his window, as slowly and silently as the snow in a dream, the traveler fell into a long-desired, long-awaited reverie; cleansed by memories of innocence and childhood, he succumbed to optimism and dared to believe himself at home in this world.鈥�
鈥淭hose sights spoke of a strange and powerful loneliness. It was as if he were in a place where the whole world had forgotten, as if it were snowing at the end of the world.鈥�
鈥淭he sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That鈥檚 why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another.鈥�
March 1, 2025
袧懈泻邪泻 薪械 械 褋谢褍褔邪泄薪芯, 褔械 袨褉褏邪薪 袩邪屑褍泻 械 1. 褌芯谢泻芯胁邪 懈蟹胁械褋褌械薪 薪邪锌芯褋谢械写褗泻 懈 2. 械 褋褗写械薪 懈 械写胁邪 薪械 芯褌懈胁邪 胁 蟹邪褌胁芯褉邪 胁 孝褍褉褑懈褟. 袟邪褖芯褌芯 泻薪懈谐懈褌械 屑褍 (邪泻芯 褋褗写褟 锌芯 褌邪蟹懈), 锌芯泻邪蟹胁邪褌 薪械褖邪 蟹邪 褉芯写薪邪褌邪 屑褍 褋褌褉邪薪邪, 泻芯懈褌芯 械写薪邪 薪械蟹褉褟谢邪 锌芯谢褍-写械屑芯泻褉邪褑懈褟 泻邪褌芯 薪械褟 褌褉褍写薪芯 屑芯卸械 写邪 锌褉懈蟹薪邪械 锌褉械写 褋械斜械 褋懈鈥�
孝褍褉褑懈褟 芯褌 褌褍褉褋泻懈褌械 褋械褉懈邪谢懈 泻邪褌芯 袥懈褋褌芯锌邪写 锌褉懈屑械褉薪芯, 械 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 褑懈胁懈谢懈蟹芯胁邪薪邪褌邪 褋褌芯谢懈褑邪, 薪邪 泻褉邪褋懈胁懈褌械, 芯斜褉邪蟹芯胁邪薪懈 褏芯褉邪, 薪邪 卸械薪懈褌械 褋 锌谢邪屑械薪薪懈 锌芯谐谢械写懈, 芯斜谢械褔械薪懈 胁褗胁 袙械褉褋邪褔械 懈 薪邪 屑褗卸械褌械-斜懈蟹薪械褋屑械薪懈 褋褗褋 褋泻褗锌懈 泻芯褋褌褞屑懈. 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 褋胁械褌褋泻懈褟 卸懈胁芯褌, 泻褍谢褌褍褉邪褌邪, 械写薪邪 械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻邪 孝褍褉褑懈褟 鈥� 褌芯褔薪芯 褌邪泻邪胁邪, 泻邪泻胁邪褌芯 锌芯谢懈褌懈褑懈 懈 卸懈褌械谢懈 薪邪 褌邪蟹懈 褋褌褉邪薪邪 懈屑 褋械 懈褋泻邪 褌褟 写邪 懈蟹谐谢械卸写邪 胁 芯褔懈褌械 薪邪 芯褋褌邪薪邪谢懈褟 褋胁褟褌. 袝写薪邪 孝褍褉褑懈褟, 泻芯褟褌芯 褋褗褖械褋褌胁褍胁邪 胁褗胁 褎邪薪褌邪蟹懈懈褌械, 胁 薪褟泻芯懈 泻胁邪褉褌邪谢懈 薪邪 袠褋褌邪薪斜褍谢 懈 屑邪泄 薪懈泻褗写械 写褉褍谐邪写械.
孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 袨褉褏邪薪 袩邪屑褍泻 芯斜邪褔械, 褌邪泻邪胁邪, 泻邪泻胁邪褌芯 褌芯泄 褟 芯锌懈褋胁邪 胁 褉芯屑邪薪懈褌械 褋懈, 械 胁褋褗褖薪芯褋褌 褉械邪谢薪邪褌邪, 薪械 泻懈薪械屑邪褌芯谐褉邪褎懈褔薪邪 孝褍褉褑懈褟. 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 锌褉芯胁懈薪褑懈褟褌邪, 薪邪 写械褋械褌泻懈褌械 屑懈谢懈芯薪懈 斜械写薪懈, 薪械芯斜褉邪蟹芯胁邪薪懈 褏芯褉邪, 薪邪 芯谐褉芯屑薪邪褌邪 斜械蟹褉邪斜芯褌懈褑邪, 薪邪 斜褉邪写邪褌懈 屑褗卸械, 泻芯懈褌芯 锌芯 褑褟谢 写械薪 胁懈褋褟褌 胁 泻邪褎械薪械褌芯 邪 锌芯褋谢械 斜懈褟褌 卸械薪懈褌械 褋懈. 袠 薪邪泄-胁械褔械 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻邪褌邪 薪械褋褌邪斜懈谢薪芯褋褌, 薪邪褋懈谢懈械 懈 褍斜懈泄褋褌胁邪, 薪邪 胁械褔薪芯褌芯 谢褞褕泻邪薪械 屑械卸写褍 袝胁褉芯锌邪 懈 袗蟹懈褟, 屑械卸写褍 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻懈褟 懈褋谢褟屑 懈 胁芯泄褋褌胁邪褖懈褟 屑邪褉泻褋懈蟹褗屑, 屑械卸写褍 芯斜褉邪蟹芯胁邪薪芯褋褌褌邪 懈 褎邪薪邪褌懈褔薪懈褟 薪邪褑懈芯薪邪谢懈蟹褗屑, 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 胁芯械薪薪懈褟 褉械卸懈屑 泻邪褌芯 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪 谐邪褉邪薪褌 蟹邪 褋胁械褌褋泻邪褌邪 懈 褖芯-谐芯写械 锌褉邪胁芯胁邪 写褗褉卸邪胁邪, 械写薪邪 芯褖械 薪械锌芯褉邪褋薪邪谢邪 懈 屑薪芯谐芯 薪械褋褌邪斜懈谢薪邪 锌芯谢褍-写械屑芯泻褉邪褑懈褟.
小薪褟谐 薪械 锌褉邪胁懈 懈蟹泻谢褞褔械薪懈械 鈥� 褌芯泄 械 褌械卸褗泻, 屑薪芯谐芯 褌械卸褗泻 蟹邪 褔械褌械薪械. 袙褗锌褉芯褋懈褌械, 泻芯懈褌芯 锌芯胁写懈谐邪 蟹邪 褌褍褉褋泻邪褌邪 薪邪褑懈芯薪邪谢薪邪, 泻褍谢褌褍褉薪邪 懈 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻邪 懈写械薪褌懈褔薪芯褋褌, 蟹邪 薪邪褉芯写芯锌褋懈褏芯谢芯谐懈褟褌邪, 蟹邪 褏邪褉邪泻褌械褉邪 薪邪 褌褍褉褋泻懈褟 褔芯胁械泻 懈 胁懈蟹懈褟褌邪 屑褍 蟹邪 褋胁械褌邪 懈 褉邪蟹胁懈褌懈械褌芯 薪邪 写褗褉卸邪胁邪褌邪 褋邪 懈蟹泻谢褞褔懈褌械谢薪芯 褋械褉懈芯蟹薪懈, 薪邪 褎芯薪邪 薪邪 械写薪邪 谢械泻芯 锌褉邪褕薪邪 谢褞斜芯胁薪邪 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟. 袙褗锌褉芯褋懈, 泻芯懈褌芯, 邪泻芯 褋褗写懈屑 锌芯 褉械邪泻褑懈懈褌械 薪邪 褌褍褉褋泻芯褌芯 芯斜褖械褋褌胁芯 懈 写褗褉卸邪胁邪 泻褗屑 泻薪懈谐懈褌械 薪邪 袩邪屑褍泻, 泻邪褌芯 褔械 谢懈 孝褍褉褑懈褟 胁褋械 芯褖械 薪械 械 谐芯褌芯胁邪 写邪 蟹邪写邪写械 薪邪 褋械斜械 褋懈, 泻邪屑芯 谢懈 写邪 蟹邪锌芯褔薪械 写邪 褌褗褉褋懈 褌械褏薪懈褌械 芯褌谐芯胁芯褉懈.
袠 屑械卸写褍 写褉褍谐芯褌芯, 懈 谐芯 泻邪蟹胁邪屑 褋邪屑芯 蟹邪褉邪写懈 褌芯胁邪, 褔械 褌芯褟 胁褗锌褉芯褋 薪邪锌芯褋谢械写褗泻 褋械 芯斜褋褗卸写邪 胁 屑械写懈懈褌械, 褌胁芯褉斜懈褌械 薪邪 袨褉褏邪薪 袩邪屑褍泻 褋邪 泻邪褌芯 褔械 谢懈 薪邪泄-泻褉邪褋薪芯褉械褔懈胁芯褌芯 屑薪械薪懈械 蟹邪 褌芯胁邪 懈屑邪 谢懈 屑褟褋褌芯 孝褍褉褑懈褟 胁 袝小.
Edit 2017谐.: 袩褉械写胁懈写 胁褗蟹褏芯写邪 薪邪 袝褉写芯谐邪薪 锌褉械蟹 懈蟹屑懈薪邪谢懈褌械 8 谐芯写懈薪懈 芯褌泻邪泻 褋褗屑 薪邪锌懈褋邪谢 褌芯胁邪 褉械胁褞, 褋屑褟褌邪屑 薪邪斜谢褞写械薪懈褟褌邪 薪邪 袩邪屑褍泻, 泻邪泻褌芯 懈 谐芯褉薪懈褌械 屑懈 褉邪蟹褋褗卸写械薪懈褟 胁褗褉褏褍 褌褟褏, 蟹邪 芯褋芯斜械薪芯 锌褉芯薪懈泻薪芯胁械薪懈, 薪械 褔械 褋械 褏胁邪谢褟.
孝褍褉褑懈褟 芯褌 褌褍褉褋泻懈褌械 褋械褉懈邪谢懈 泻邪褌芯 袥懈褋褌芯锌邪写 锌褉懈屑械褉薪芯, 械 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 褑懈胁懈谢懈蟹芯胁邪薪邪褌邪 褋褌芯谢懈褑邪, 薪邪 泻褉邪褋懈胁懈褌械, 芯斜褉邪蟹芯胁邪薪懈 褏芯褉邪, 薪邪 卸械薪懈褌械 褋 锌谢邪屑械薪薪懈 锌芯谐谢械写懈, 芯斜谢械褔械薪懈 胁褗胁 袙械褉褋邪褔械 懈 薪邪 屑褗卸械褌械-斜懈蟹薪械褋屑械薪懈 褋褗褋 褋泻褗锌懈 泻芯褋褌褞屑懈. 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 褋胁械褌褋泻懈褟 卸懈胁芯褌, 泻褍谢褌褍褉邪褌邪, 械写薪邪 械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻邪 孝褍褉褑懈褟 鈥� 褌芯褔薪芯 褌邪泻邪胁邪, 泻邪泻胁邪褌芯 锌芯谢懈褌懈褑懈 懈 卸懈褌械谢懈 薪邪 褌邪蟹懈 褋褌褉邪薪邪 懈屑 褋械 懈褋泻邪 褌褟 写邪 懈蟹谐谢械卸写邪 胁 芯褔懈褌械 薪邪 芯褋褌邪薪邪谢懈褟 褋胁褟褌. 袝写薪邪 孝褍褉褑懈褟, 泻芯褟褌芯 褋褗褖械褋褌胁褍胁邪 胁褗胁 褎邪薪褌邪蟹懈懈褌械, 胁 薪褟泻芯懈 泻胁邪褉褌邪谢懈 薪邪 袠褋褌邪薪斜褍谢 懈 屑邪泄 薪懈泻褗写械 写褉褍谐邪写械.
孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 袨褉褏邪薪 袩邪屑褍泻 芯斜邪褔械, 褌邪泻邪胁邪, 泻邪泻胁邪褌芯 褌芯泄 褟 芯锌懈褋胁邪 胁 褉芯屑邪薪懈褌械 褋懈, 械 胁褋褗褖薪芯褋褌 褉械邪谢薪邪褌邪, 薪械 泻懈薪械屑邪褌芯谐褉邪褎懈褔薪邪 孝褍褉褑懈褟. 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 锌褉芯胁懈薪褑懈褟褌邪, 薪邪 写械褋械褌泻懈褌械 屑懈谢懈芯薪懈 斜械写薪懈, 薪械芯斜褉邪蟹芯胁邪薪懈 褏芯褉邪, 薪邪 芯谐褉芯屑薪邪褌邪 斜械蟹褉邪斜芯褌懈褑邪, 薪邪 斜褉邪写邪褌懈 屑褗卸械, 泻芯懈褌芯 锌芯 褑褟谢 写械薪 胁懈褋褟褌 胁 泻邪褎械薪械褌芯 邪 锌芯褋谢械 斜懈褟褌 卸械薪懈褌械 褋懈. 袠 薪邪泄-胁械褔械 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻邪褌邪 薪械褋褌邪斜懈谢薪芯褋褌, 薪邪褋懈谢懈械 懈 褍斜懈泄褋褌胁邪, 薪邪 胁械褔薪芯褌芯 谢褞褕泻邪薪械 屑械卸写褍 袝胁褉芯锌邪 懈 袗蟹懈褟, 屑械卸写褍 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻懈褟 懈褋谢褟屑 懈 胁芯泄褋褌胁邪褖懈褟 屑邪褉泻褋懈蟹褗屑, 屑械卸写褍 芯斜褉邪蟹芯胁邪薪芯褋褌褌邪 懈 褎邪薪邪褌懈褔薪懈褟 薪邪褑懈芯薪邪谢懈蟹褗屑, 孝褍褉褑懈褟 薪邪 胁芯械薪薪懈褟 褉械卸懈屑 泻邪褌芯 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪 谐邪褉邪薪褌 蟹邪 褋胁械褌褋泻邪褌邪 懈 褖芯-谐芯写械 锌褉邪胁芯胁邪 写褗褉卸邪胁邪, 械写薪邪 芯褖械 薪械锌芯褉邪褋薪邪谢邪 懈 屑薪芯谐芯 薪械褋褌邪斜懈谢薪邪 锌芯谢褍-写械屑芯泻褉邪褑懈褟.
小薪褟谐 薪械 锌褉邪胁懈 懈蟹泻谢褞褔械薪懈械 鈥� 褌芯泄 械 褌械卸褗泻, 屑薪芯谐芯 褌械卸褗泻 蟹邪 褔械褌械薪械. 袙褗锌褉芯褋懈褌械, 泻芯懈褌芯 锌芯胁写懈谐邪 蟹邪 褌褍褉褋泻邪褌邪 薪邪褑懈芯薪邪谢薪邪, 泻褍谢褌褍褉薪邪 懈 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻邪 懈写械薪褌懈褔薪芯褋褌, 蟹邪 薪邪褉芯写芯锌褋懈褏芯谢芯谐懈褟褌邪, 蟹邪 褏邪褉邪泻褌械褉邪 薪邪 褌褍褉褋泻懈褟 褔芯胁械泻 懈 胁懈蟹懈褟褌邪 屑褍 蟹邪 褋胁械褌邪 懈 褉邪蟹胁懈褌懈械褌芯 薪邪 写褗褉卸邪胁邪褌邪 褋邪 懈蟹泻谢褞褔懈褌械谢薪芯 褋械褉懈芯蟹薪懈, 薪邪 褎芯薪邪 薪邪 械写薪邪 谢械泻芯 锌褉邪褕薪邪 谢褞斜芯胁薪邪 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟. 袙褗锌褉芯褋懈, 泻芯懈褌芯, 邪泻芯 褋褗写懈屑 锌芯 褉械邪泻褑懈懈褌械 薪邪 褌褍褉褋泻芯褌芯 芯斜褖械褋褌胁芯 懈 写褗褉卸邪胁邪 泻褗屑 泻薪懈谐懈褌械 薪邪 袩邪屑褍泻, 泻邪褌芯 褔械 谢懈 孝褍褉褑懈褟 胁褋械 芯褖械 薪械 械 谐芯褌芯胁邪 写邪 蟹邪写邪写械 薪邪 褋械斜械 褋懈, 泻邪屑芯 谢懈 写邪 蟹邪锌芯褔薪械 写邪 褌褗褉褋懈 褌械褏薪懈褌械 芯褌谐芯胁芯褉懈.
袠 屑械卸写褍 写褉褍谐芯褌芯, 懈 谐芯 泻邪蟹胁邪屑 褋邪屑芯 蟹邪褉邪写懈 褌芯胁邪, 褔械 褌芯褟 胁褗锌褉芯褋 薪邪锌芯褋谢械写褗泻 褋械 芯斜褋褗卸写邪 胁 屑械写懈懈褌械, 褌胁芯褉斜懈褌械 薪邪 袨褉褏邪薪 袩邪屑褍泻 褋邪 泻邪褌芯 褔械 谢懈 薪邪泄-泻褉邪褋薪芯褉械褔懈胁芯褌芯 屑薪械薪懈械 蟹邪 褌芯胁邪 懈屑邪 谢懈 屑褟褋褌芯 孝褍褉褑懈褟 胁 袝小.
Edit 2017谐.: 袩褉械写胁懈写 胁褗蟹褏芯写邪 薪邪 袝褉写芯谐邪薪 锌褉械蟹 懈蟹屑懈薪邪谢懈褌械 8 谐芯写懈薪懈 芯褌泻邪泻 褋褗屑 薪邪锌懈褋邪谢 褌芯胁邪 褉械胁褞, 褋屑褟褌邪屑 薪邪斜谢褞写械薪懈褟褌邪 薪邪 袩邪屑褍泻, 泻邪泻褌芯 懈 谐芯褉薪懈褌械 屑懈 褉邪蟹褋褗卸写械薪懈褟 胁褗褉褏褍 褌褟褏, 蟹邪 芯褋芯斜械薪芯 锌褉芯薪懈泻薪芯胁械薪懈, 薪械 褔械 褋械 褏胁邪谢褟.
January 14, 2018
"To play the rebel heroine in Turkey, you don't pull off your scarf, you put it on"
If you were interested in the whole controversy raised by ban of veil in France a few years ago, then this book too might interest you. It is based on in a modern and secular Turkey. Here too there is a ban on wearing head-scarves in universities and like, though this is in a country where the majority of the population is Muslim but rulers are still liberals (or rather ultra-liberals). As a consequence several innocent religious women are deprived of their right to education and, forced to choose between education and religion; they end up committing suicide. What made their misfortune worse is the guilt they must have carried to graves since Koran prohibits suicide. And so, in a way, they must have felt condemned by the very religion they were fighting for.
To me, the book shows that the dangers of ultra-liberalism. Liberals should and must fight for the oppressed - Turgut Bey, a liberal who is also one of the better characters, argues "It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be right". I find Kadife more agreeable who puts on scarf, not for religious reasons but to protest against an unjust law. Here liberals are causing the oppression by forcing their values on unwilling people.
Most people sort-of get married with their religious beliefs over time, to force them to leave behind their religion is like forcing a drug addict to abandon his drugs. To begin with, it is inhumane. Next, it is too late - it will create a lot of pain and you probably won't succeed. And even if you did, religion (or drug) will leave behind a void (a sort of need it has created in person for itself) and the person will never be comfortable. Marx was right when he said religion is the opium of masses. It is the case here.
The suicides are, of course, turned into political symbols. Some good religious young men disturbed by what is being done to women took to revolt. Pamuk managed to humanized one such young man by making him tell the protagonist about his love for a girl who had committed suicide and his own wish to be a science fiction writer.
October 31, 2023
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丕賱亘鬲賴 讴賴 鬲賵蹖 賲賯丿賲賴 賲鬲乇噩賲 賴賲 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賴賲 丌賵丕蹖蹖 讴丕貙 讴丕乇(亘乇賮) 賵 讴丕乇爻 丕卮丕乇賴 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 賲鬲丕爻賮丕賳賴 鬲賵蹖 夭亘丕賳 賮丕乇爻蹖 丕蹖賳 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖 丕夭 亘蹖賳 乇賮鬲賴.
讴乇蹖賲 讴賴 亘丕 丕爻賲 禺賵丿卮 亘蹖诏丕賳賴 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖乇爻賴 丕夭 丨乇賮 丕賵賱 丕爻賲卮 亘乇丕蹖 丕爻賲 賲爻鬲毓丕乇 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 賲蹖 讴賳賴 " 讴丕 "貙 讴丕 卮丕毓乇 賳爻亘鬲丕 賲毓乇賵賮蹖 賴爻鬲 賵 賴賲夭賲丕賳蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕卮 亘丕 丕賵噩 诏蹖乇蹖 賮囟丕蹖 賳丕賲爻丕毓丿 爻蹖丕爻蹖 鬲賵蹖 鬲乇讴蹖賴 丕賵賳 乇賵 賲噩亘賵乇 賲蹖讴賳賴 亘禺丕胤乇 賮毓丕賱蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 爻蹖丕爻蹖 丕蹖 讴賴 賳丕禺賵卮丕蹖賳丿 丿賵賱鬲 賵賯鬲 賴爻鬲 亘乇丕蹖 賲丿鬲 12 爻丕賱 亘賴 賮乇丕賳讴賮賵乇鬲 丌賱賲丕賳 賮乇丕乇 讴賳賴. 丕賲丕 賮賵鬲 賲丕丿乇卮 亘賴丕賳賴 賲賴賲蹖 亘乇丕蹖 亘丕夭诏卮鬲 亘賴 鬲乇讴蹖賴 賵 丕爻鬲丕賳亘賵賱 賵 卮乇賵毓 丿賵乇賴 噩丿蹖丿蹖 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇賵 亘乇丕卮 乇賯賲 賲蹖夭賳賴. 鬲賵蹖 丕爻鬲丕賳亘賵賱 賲鬲賵噩賴 禺亘乇 噩丕賱亘 賵 丿乇丿賳丕讴蹖 賲蹖卮賴 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賲囟賲賵賳 讴賴 趩賳丿蹖賳 丿禺鬲乇 鬲賵蹖 卮賴乇 讴賵趩讴 讴丕乇爻 丿爻鬲 亘賴 禺賵丿讴卮蹖 夭丿賳丿. 丕夭 胤乇賮蹖 亘賴 夭賵丿蹖 丕賳鬲禺丕亘丕鬲 亘乇丕蹖 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 卮賴乇丿丕乇 噩丿蹖丿 讴丕乇爻 亘乇诏夭丕乇 賲蹖卮賴 賵 丕夭 賴賲賴 賲賴賲 鬲乇 毓卮賯 爻丕賱賴丕蹖 丿賵乇 讴丕貙 丕蹖倬讴 賴賲 爻丕讴賳 讴丕乇爻 賴爻鬲 賵 丕禺蹖乇丕 丕夭 賴賲爻乇卮 胤賱丕賯 诏乇賮鬲賴 賵 亘賴 倬丿乇卮 鬲賵蹖 賲丿蹖乇蹖鬲 賴鬲賱 讴賲讴 賲蹖讴賳賴. 讴丕 亘乇丕蹖 賳賵卮鬲賳 趩賳丿 賲賯丕賱賴 丕夭 禺賵丿讴卮蹖 賴丕 賵 丕賳鬲禺丕亘丕鬲 賵 丕賲鬲丨丕賳 賲噩丿丿 卮丕賳爻卮 亘乇丕蹖 亘丿爻鬲 丌賵乇丿賳 丕蹖倬讴 毓丕夭賲 讴丕乇爻 賲蹖卮賴. 亘丕 賵乇賵丿 禺賵卮 蹖賲賳 讴丕 亘賴 讴丕乇爻 亘乇賮 爻賳诏蹖賳蹖 卮乇賵毓 亘賴 亘丕乇卮 賲蹖讴賳賴 賵 乇丕賴 賴丕蹖 賵乇賵丿 賵 禺乇賵噩 讴丕乇爻 亘爻鬲賴 賲蹖卮賴. 讴丕 讴賴 趩賳丿蹖賳 爻丕賱 丕賳诏丕乇 鬲賵丕賳丕蹖蹖 賳賵卮鬲賳 卮毓乇 賴丕蹖 噩丿蹖丿 乇賵 丕夭 丿爻鬲 丿丕丿賴 亘丕 賵乇賵丿卮 亘賴 讴丕乇爻 亘胤賵乇 賲毓噩夭賴 賵丕乇 丿趩丕乇 賮賵乇丕賳 賵 噩賵卮卮 卮毓乇 賴丕蹖 噩丿蹖丿 賵 賲鬲毓丿丿 鬲賵蹖 匕賴賳卮 賲蹖卮賴. 鬲賵蹖 丕賵賱蹖賳 爻丕毓鬲賴丕蹖 诏乇丿卮 丿丕禺賱 卮賴乇 賲賵賮賯 賲蹖卮賴 讴賴 亘丕 丕蹖倬讴 丿丕禺賱 蹖讴 讴丕賮賴 丿蹖丿丕乇 讴賳賴 丕賲丕 丿乇 賴賲蹖賳 讴丕賮賴 乇蹖蹖爻 丿丕賳卮讴丿賴 讴賴 賲丕賳毓 賵乇賵丿 丿禺鬲乇 賴丕蹖 賲丨噩亘賴 亘賴 丿丕賳卮讴丿賴 卮丿賴 鬲賵爻胤 卮禺氐 賳丕卮賳丕爻蹖 讴賴 賯胤毓丕 丕夭賲爻賱賲丕賳 賴丕蹖 鬲賳丿乇賵 賲匕賴亘蹖 賴爻鬲 亘賴 賯鬲賱 賲蹖乇爻賴 賵 丕賵賱蹖賳 賯胤毓賴 丿賵賲蹖賳賵 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 賳丕诏賵丕乇 夭賲蹖賳 賲蹖禺賵乇賴. 丕蹖賳 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 亘丕 讴賵丿鬲丕 亘賴 丕賵噩 賲蹖乇爻賴 讴賴 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 乇賵 鬲丨鬲 丕賱卮毓丕毓 賯乇丕乇 賲蹖丿賴 賵 ...
鬲賵蹖 鬲賲丕賲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕蹖 倬丕賲賵讴 卮乇丕蹖胤 爻蹖丕爻蹖 賵 賳賯丿 丕蹖賳 賵囟毓蹖鬲 賳丕賲爻丕毓丿 賳賯卮 丕爻丕爻蹖 丿丕乇賴. 丿乇 丨丕賱蹖 讴賴 禺賵丿 倬丕賲賵讴 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵丿卮 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕卮賵 爻蹖丕爻蹖 賳賲蹖丿賵賳賴 丕賲丕 禺亘 丿乇亘丕乇賴 亘乇賮 賲賵囟賵毓 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲 賵 卮賮丕賮 鬲乇 倬蹖卮 賲蹖乇賴. 丕爻丕爻 鬲賲丕賲 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 鬲丕孬蹖乇诏匕丕乇 鬲賵蹖 乇賵賳丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 鬲賲 爻蹖丕爻蹖 丿丕乇賳丿 賵 丨鬲蹖 乇賵丕亘胤 毓丕胤賮蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賵蹖跇诏蹖 賲爻鬲孬賳蹖 賳蹖爻鬲. 鬲乇讴蹖賴 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 丿乇诏蹖乇 丿賵诏丕賳诏蹖 卮乇賯 賵 睾乇亘 蹖丕 亘賴 毓亘丕乇鬲 丿蹖诏賴 丕蹖 爻乇诏乇丿丕賳 亘蹖賳 丕乇賵倬丕 賵 丌爻蹖丕 丕賲丕 賲卮鬲丕賯 亘賴 賲丨爻賵亘 卮丿賳 丿乇 噩賲毓 丕乇賵倬丕蹖蹖 賴丕 亘賵丿賴 賵 讴丕蹖蹖 賴賲 讴賴 賳爻禺賴 丕蹖 丕夭 鬲乇讴蹖賴 丿乇诏蹖乇 丕蹖賳 丌卮賵亘 賴爻鬲.
賵 丨丕賱丕 讴丕 讴賴 爻丕賱 賴丕 丿乇 噩賲毓 丕乇賵倬丕蹖蹖 賴丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賴 亘丕蹖丿 丿乇亘丕乇賴 丿禺鬲乇賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘禺丕胤乇 丨賮馗 丨噩丕亘 丨丕馗乇 卮丿賳丿 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖卮賵賳 亘诏匕乇賳丿 鬲丨賯蹖賯 讴賳賴 賵 亘賳賵蹖爻賴. 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲賴賲鬲乇蹖賳 賵蹖跇诏蹖 賴丕蹖 賯賱賲 倬丕賲賵讴 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 丕蹖賳賴 讴賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 胤賵賱 賲爻蹖乇 賴賲賵丕乇賴 乇卮丿 賲蹖讴賳賳丿 賵 賴賲蹖卮賴 賴乇趩蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇 亘丕賴丕卮賵賳 倬蹖卮 賲蹖乇蹖賲 賵囟賵丨 丕蹖賳 賲爻卅賱賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賲蹖卮賴. 讴丕 讴賴 丿乇 卮乇賵毓 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳 蹖讴 卮禺氐 讴丕賲賱丕 丌鬲卅蹖爻鬲 賲毓乇賮蹖 賲蹖卮賴 丕賲丕 乇賮鬲賴 乇賮鬲賴 丕蹖賳 賯丕胤毓蹖鬲 讴賲乇賳诏 賲蹖卮賴.
鬲賵蹖 賯爻賲鬲 賴丕蹖蹖 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 亘賴 丕蹖乇丕賳 賵 丕賳賯賱丕亘卮 丕卮丕乇賴 賲蹖卮賴 賵 賴乇趩賳丿 丿乇丿賳丕讴 賵賱蹖 丕卮丕乇賴 亘賴 丕蹖賳 氐賵乇鬲 賴爻鬲 讴賴 鬲乇讴蹖賴 賳亘丕蹖丿 鬲賵蹖 賲爻蹖乇蹖 丨乇讴鬲 讴賳賴 讴賴 亘賴 噩賲賴賵乇蹖 丕爻賱丕賲蹖 丿賵賲蹖 鬲賵蹖 丿賳蹖丕 鬲亘丿蹖賱 亘卮賴!
趩賳丿 賳讴鬲賴!
亘乇賮 爻丕賱賴丕 鬲乇噩賲賴 賲賳丕爻亘蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲. 丕賲丕 亘毓丿 丕蹖賳 賲丿鬲 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 亘賱丕禺乇賴 丕賵賳賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賲賳鬲馗乇卮 亘賵丿賳丿 賲蹖鬲賵賳賳 亘丕 禺蹖丕賱 乇丕丨鬲 亘乇賳 爻乇丕睾 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丕蹖賳 鬲乇噩賲賴.
倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖卮賴 丕诏乇 賯亘賱丕 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丕夭 倬丕賲賵讴 乇賵 賲胤丕賱毓賴 賳讴乇丿蹖丿 賵 賲蹖禺賵丕蹖丿 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丌卮賳丕 亘卮蹖丿 亘丕 讴鬲丕亘蹖 睾蹖乇 丕夭 亘乇賮 卮乇賵毓 讴賳蹖丿 趩賵賳 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 丕蹖賳 毓丿賲 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕毓孬 賲蹖卮賴 丕賵賳 賱匕鬲 賲賵乇丿 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 乇賵 賳亘乇蹖丿. 亘乇賮 乇賵 亘匕丕乇蹖丿 丕賵賳 丕賵丕禺乇 賱蹖爻鬲 倬丕賲賵讴. 丕诏乇 賴賲 賲蹖禺賵丕蹖丿 亘乇賮 乇賵 卮乇賵毓 讴賳蹖丿 丨丿丕賯賱 蹖讴 爻乇趩 丕賵賱蹖賴 丿乇亘丕乇賴 丕賵賳 丿賵乇丕賳 鬲乇讴蹖賴 賵 賲丿丕乇爻 丕賲丕賲 禺胤蹖亘 賵 卮賴乇 讴丕乇爻 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖丿 鬲賵蹖 乇賵賳丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賴鬲賵賳 禺蹖賱蹖 讴賲讴 賲蹖讴賳賴.
卮禺氐 禺賵丿 丌賯丕蹖 倬丕賲賵讴 賴賲 鬲賵蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丨囟賵乇 丿丕乇賴 賵 丨鬲蹖 毓丕卮賯 賴賲 賲蹖卮賴!
賳賵卮鬲賴 賴丕蹖 倬丕賲賵讴 丿乇 毓蹖賳 丕蹖賳讴賴 亘爻蹖丕乇 亘乇丕蹖 賲丕 賲乇丿賲 丕蹖乇丕賳 賲蹖鬲賵賳賴 賲賱賲賵爻 賵 賯丕亘賱 丿乇讴 亘丕卮賴 丕賲丕 禺蹖賱蹖 賲賵乇丿 倬爻賳丿 賵 爻賱蹖賯賴 賳亘賵丿賴 鬲丕 亘賴 丕賲乇賵夭 丿賱丕蹖賱 賲鬲毓丿丿蹖 賴賲 賲蹖卮賴 亘乇丕卮 卮賲乇丿 賲孬賱 丕蹖賳讴賴 亘毓囟蹖 賴丕 毓賯蹖丿賴 丿丕乇賳丿 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 亘丕 讴蹖賮蹖鬲 乇賵 賯胤毓丕 賳賲蹖卮賴 鬲賵蹖 鬲乇讴蹖賴 蹖丕賮鬲 讴乇丿 讴賴 禺亘 讴丕賲賱丕 丕卮鬲亘丕賴賴. 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖 倬丕賲賵讴 胤賵乇蹖 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賮賯胤 亘蹖爻鬲 丿乇氐丿 賲胤丕賱亘 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 鬲卮讴蹖賱 丿丕丿賴 亘丕卮賴 賵 倬乇 丕夭 诏賮鬲诏賵 賵 亘丨孬 賵 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賵 爻蹖丕爻鬲 賵 賴賳乇 賵 蹖丕 亘賴鬲乇 亘诏賲 讴賵賱丕跇 丕夭 賴乇 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 賲賲讴賳 亘丕卮賴 倬爻 賳爻亘鬲丕 丨噩蹖賲 賵 讴賳丿禺賵丕賳 倬蹖卮 賲蹖乇賴 賵 亘毓囟蹖 賯爻賲鬲 賴丕 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賲乇賵乇 賵 鬲賮讴乇 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丿丕乇賴 賵 氐乇賮丕 蹖讴 讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕蹖 倬乇讴乇丿賳 丕賵賯丕鬲 賮乇丕睾鬲 賳蹖爻鬲.
賳賴賲 丌亘丕賳 氐賮乇 丿賵
賳夭丿蹖讴 賵 賳夭丿蹖讴鬲乇 賲蹖卮賲 睾賲 毓噩蹖亘蹖 倬爻 夭賲蹖賳賴 丕賮讴丕乇賲 乇賵 倬乇 賲蹖 讴賳賴 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賲囟賲賵賳 讴賴 禺亘 倬乇賵賳丿賴 丕蹖賳 蹖讴蹖 賴賲 亘爻鬲賴 卮丿 賵 亘賴 毓亘丕乇鬲蹖 "賵丕賳 賲賵乇 賱爻" 丿乇 賲乇丨賱賴 亘毓丿 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 鬲爻讴蹖賳 睾賲 賲匕讴賵乇 亘丕 禺賵丿賲 賲蹖诏賲 讴賴 "丌乇丕賲卮 禺賵丿鬲 乇賵 丨賮馗 讴賳貙 賴賳賵夭 夭賳丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 亘賴 賳賵卮鬲賳 丕丿丕賲賴 賲蹖丿賴."
鬲賯賱亘 丕夭 乇賵蹖 丿爻鬲 賮乇丕賳鬲爻 讴丕賮讴丕責!
賵賯鬲蹖 鬲賵蹖 丕賵賱蹖賳 氐賮丨丕鬲 讴鬲丕亘 亘丕 讴丕 鬲賵蹖 丕鬲賵亘賵爻 賳卮爻鬲蹖賲 賵 丿丕乇蹖賲 亘賴 爻賲鬲 讴丕乇爻 丨乇讴鬲 賲蹖 讴賳蹖賲 丕爻賲 卮禺氐蹖鬲 丕氐賱蹖 亘乇賮 鬲毓噩亘 亘乇 丕賳诏蹖夭 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖乇爻賴. 丕诏乇 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖 噩匕丕亘 賵 丿乇 毓蹖賳 丨丕賱 賳丕鬲賲丕賲 讴丕賮讴丕 乇賵 鬲賵乇賯 讴乇丿賴 亘丕卮蹖丿 鬲賵蹖 賴乇 氐賮丨賴 趩賳丿蹖賳 亘丕乇 亘丕 丕爻賲 讴丕 亘乇禺賵乇丿 讴乇丿蹖丿! 賲孬賱丕 讴丕 鬲賵蹖 賲丨丕讴賲賴 丿丕乇賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 禺賵丿卮 乇賵 賲蹖 讴賳賴 賵 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 毓丕丿蹖 丿乇 诏匕乇 丕賲丕 讴丕賲賱丕 賳丕诏賴丕賳蹖 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 夭蹖乇 賵 乇賵 賲蹖卮賴 賵 賴蹖趩賵賯鬲 賴賲 賳賲蹖 賮賴賲蹖賲 讴賴 趩乇丕 亘丕 賲乇诏 毓噩蹖亘卮 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賴 倬丕蹖丕賳 賲蹖 乇爻賴. 丕賲丕 丕賳诏丕乇 讴丕 亘賴 賲乇賵乇 丕蹖賳 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 乇賵 倬匕蹖乇賮鬲 賵 丿乇 丕賳鬲賴丕 賮賯胤 賲賳鬲馗乇 丕噩乇丕蹖 丨讴賲 夭賲丕賳 亘乇丕卮 爻倬乇蹖 賲蹖 卮丿.
賯亘賱丕 鬲賵蹖 乇蹖賵蹖賵 讴鬲丕亘 爻蹖丕賴 亘賴 丕蹖賳 丕卮丕乇賴 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿賲 讴賴 倬丕賲賵讴 亘乇丕蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳卮 丕爻丕賲蹖 乇賵 胤賵乇蹖 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 賲蹖讴賳賴 讴賴 賴乇 讴丿賵賲 蹖丕 亘賴 賲賵囟賵毓蹖 丕卮丕乇賴 丿丕乇賴 蹖丕 賲毓賳丕蹖 禺丕氐蹖 乇賵 亘賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 鬲匕讴乇 賲蹖丿賴 倬爻貙 丕夭 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 丕爻賲 讴丕 亘乇丕蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲 亘乇賮 賲胤賲卅賳丕 賲賳馗賵乇 禺丕氐蹖 丿丕卮鬲賴 賵 亘丕蹖丿 亘丕 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 倬蹖卮 亘乇蹖賲.
丕賱亘鬲賴 讴賴 鬲賵蹖 賲賯丿賲賴 賲鬲乇噩賲 賴賲 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賴賲 丌賵丕蹖蹖 讴丕貙 讴丕乇(亘乇賮) 賵 讴丕乇爻 丕卮丕乇賴 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 賲鬲丕爻賮丕賳賴 鬲賵蹖 夭亘丕賳 賮丕乇爻蹖 丕蹖賳 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖 丕夭 亘蹖賳 乇賮鬲賴.
讴乇蹖賲 讴賴 亘丕 丕爻賲 禺賵丿卮 亘蹖诏丕賳賴 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖乇爻賴 丕夭 丨乇賮 丕賵賱 丕爻賲卮 亘乇丕蹖 丕爻賲 賲爻鬲毓丕乇 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 賲蹖 讴賳賴 " 讴丕 "貙 讴丕 卮丕毓乇 賳爻亘鬲丕 賲毓乇賵賮蹖 賴爻鬲 賵 賴賲夭賲丕賳蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕卮 亘丕 丕賵噩 诏蹖乇蹖 賮囟丕蹖 賳丕賲爻丕毓丿 爻蹖丕爻蹖 鬲賵蹖 鬲乇讴蹖賴 丕賵賳 乇賵 賲噩亘賵乇 賲蹖讴賳賴 亘禺丕胤乇 賮毓丕賱蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 爻蹖丕爻蹖 丕蹖 讴賴 賳丕禺賵卮丕蹖賳丿 丿賵賱鬲 賵賯鬲 賴爻鬲 亘乇丕蹖 賲丿鬲 12 爻丕賱 亘賴 賮乇丕賳讴賮賵乇鬲 丌賱賲丕賳 賮乇丕乇 讴賳賴. 丕賲丕 賮賵鬲 賲丕丿乇卮 亘賴丕賳賴 賲賴賲蹖 亘乇丕蹖 亘丕夭诏卮鬲 亘賴 鬲乇讴蹖賴 賵 丕爻鬲丕賳亘賵賱 賵 卮乇賵毓 丿賵乇賴 噩丿蹖丿蹖 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇賵 亘乇丕卮 乇賯賲 賲蹖夭賳賴. 鬲賵蹖 丕爻鬲丕賳亘賵賱 賲鬲賵噩賴 禺亘乇 噩丕賱亘 賵 丿乇丿賳丕讴蹖 賲蹖卮賴 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賲囟賲賵賳 讴賴 趩賳丿蹖賳 丿禺鬲乇 鬲賵蹖 卮賴乇 讴賵趩讴 讴丕乇爻 丿爻鬲 亘賴 禺賵丿讴卮蹖 夭丿賳丿. 丕夭 胤乇賮蹖 亘賴 夭賵丿蹖 丕賳鬲禺丕亘丕鬲 亘乇丕蹖 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 卮賴乇丿丕乇 噩丿蹖丿 讴丕乇爻 亘乇诏夭丕乇 賲蹖卮賴 賵 丕夭 賴賲賴 賲賴賲 鬲乇 毓卮賯 爻丕賱賴丕蹖 丿賵乇 讴丕貙 丕蹖倬讴 賴賲 爻丕讴賳 讴丕乇爻 賴爻鬲 賵 丕禺蹖乇丕 丕夭 賴賲爻乇卮 胤賱丕賯 诏乇賮鬲賴 賵 亘賴 倬丿乇卮 鬲賵蹖 賲丿蹖乇蹖鬲 賴鬲賱 讴賲讴 賲蹖讴賳賴. 讴丕 亘乇丕蹖 賳賵卮鬲賳 趩賳丿 賲賯丕賱賴 丕夭 禺賵丿讴卮蹖 賴丕 賵 丕賳鬲禺丕亘丕鬲 賵 丕賲鬲丨丕賳 賲噩丿丿 卮丕賳爻卮 亘乇丕蹖 亘丿爻鬲 丌賵乇丿賳 丕蹖倬讴 毓丕夭賲 讴丕乇爻 賲蹖卮賴. 亘丕 賵乇賵丿 禺賵卮 蹖賲賳 讴丕 亘賴 讴丕乇爻 亘乇賮 爻賳诏蹖賳蹖 卮乇賵毓 亘賴 亘丕乇卮 賲蹖讴賳賴 賵 乇丕賴 賴丕蹖 賵乇賵丿 賵 禺乇賵噩 讴丕乇爻 亘爻鬲賴 賲蹖卮賴. 讴丕 讴賴 趩賳丿蹖賳 爻丕賱 丕賳诏丕乇 鬲賵丕賳丕蹖蹖 賳賵卮鬲賳 卮毓乇 賴丕蹖 噩丿蹖丿 乇賵 丕夭 丿爻鬲 丿丕丿賴 亘丕 賵乇賵丿卮 亘賴 讴丕乇爻 亘胤賵乇 賲毓噩夭賴 賵丕乇 丿趩丕乇 賮賵乇丕賳 賵 噩賵卮卮 卮毓乇 賴丕蹖 噩丿蹖丿 賵 賲鬲毓丿丿 鬲賵蹖 匕賴賳卮 賲蹖卮賴. 鬲賵蹖 丕賵賱蹖賳 爻丕毓鬲賴丕蹖 诏乇丿卮 丿丕禺賱 卮賴乇 賲賵賮賯 賲蹖卮賴 讴賴 亘丕 丕蹖倬讴 丿丕禺賱 蹖讴 讴丕賮賴 丿蹖丿丕乇 讴賳賴 丕賲丕 丿乇 賴賲蹖賳 讴丕賮賴 乇蹖蹖爻 丿丕賳卮讴丿賴 讴賴 賲丕賳毓 賵乇賵丿 丿禺鬲乇 賴丕蹖 賲丨噩亘賴 亘賴 丿丕賳卮讴丿賴 卮丿賴 鬲賵爻胤 卮禺氐 賳丕卮賳丕爻蹖 讴賴 賯胤毓丕 丕夭賲爻賱賲丕賳 賴丕蹖 鬲賳丿乇賵 賲匕賴亘蹖 賴爻鬲 亘賴 賯鬲賱 賲蹖乇爻賴 賵 丕賵賱蹖賳 賯胤毓賴 丿賵賲蹖賳賵 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 賳丕诏賵丕乇 夭賲蹖賳 賲蹖禺賵乇賴. 丕蹖賳 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 亘丕 讴賵丿鬲丕 亘賴 丕賵噩 賲蹖乇爻賴 讴賴 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 乇賵 鬲丨鬲 丕賱卮毓丕毓 賯乇丕乇 賲蹖丿賴 賵 ...
鬲賵蹖 鬲賲丕賲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕蹖 倬丕賲賵讴 卮乇丕蹖胤 爻蹖丕爻蹖 賵 賳賯丿 丕蹖賳 賵囟毓蹖鬲 賳丕賲爻丕毓丿 賳賯卮 丕爻丕爻蹖 丿丕乇賴. 丿乇 丨丕賱蹖 讴賴 禺賵丿 倬丕賲賵讴 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵丿卮 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕卮賵 爻蹖丕爻蹖 賳賲蹖丿賵賳賴 丕賲丕 禺亘 丿乇亘丕乇賴 亘乇賮 賲賵囟賵毓 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲 賵 卮賮丕賮 鬲乇 倬蹖卮 賲蹖乇賴. 丕爻丕爻 鬲賲丕賲 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 鬲丕孬蹖乇诏匕丕乇 鬲賵蹖 乇賵賳丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 鬲賲 爻蹖丕爻蹖 丿丕乇賳丿 賵 丨鬲蹖 乇賵丕亘胤 毓丕胤賮蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賵蹖跇诏蹖 賲爻鬲孬賳蹖 賳蹖爻鬲. 鬲乇讴蹖賴 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 丿乇诏蹖乇 丿賵诏丕賳诏蹖 卮乇賯 賵 睾乇亘 蹖丕 亘賴 毓亘丕乇鬲 丿蹖诏賴 丕蹖 爻乇诏乇丿丕賳 亘蹖賳 丕乇賵倬丕 賵 丌爻蹖丕 丕賲丕 賲卮鬲丕賯 亘賴 賲丨爻賵亘 卮丿賳 丿乇 噩賲毓 丕乇賵倬丕蹖蹖 賴丕 亘賵丿賴 賵 讴丕蹖蹖 賴賲 讴賴 賳爻禺賴 丕蹖 丕夭 鬲乇讴蹖賴 丿乇诏蹖乇 丕蹖賳 丌卮賵亘 賴爻鬲.
賵 丨丕賱丕 讴丕 讴賴 爻丕賱 賴丕 丿乇 噩賲毓 丕乇賵倬丕蹖蹖 賴丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賴 亘丕蹖丿 丿乇亘丕乇賴 丿禺鬲乇賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘禺丕胤乇 丨賮馗 丨噩丕亘 丨丕馗乇 卮丿賳丿 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖卮賵賳 亘诏匕乇賳丿 鬲丨賯蹖賯 讴賳賴 賵 亘賳賵蹖爻賴. 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賲賴賲鬲乇蹖賳 賵蹖跇诏蹖 賴丕蹖 賯賱賲 倬丕賲賵讴 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 丕蹖賳賴 讴賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 胤賵賱 賲爻蹖乇 賴賲賵丕乇賴 乇卮丿 賲蹖讴賳賳丿 賵 賴賲蹖卮賴 賴乇趩蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇 亘丕賴丕卮賵賳 倬蹖卮 賲蹖乇蹖賲 賵囟賵丨 丕蹖賳 賲爻卅賱賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賲蹖卮賴. 讴丕 讴賴 丿乇 卮乇賵毓 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳 蹖讴 卮禺氐 讴丕賲賱丕 丌鬲卅蹖爻鬲 賲毓乇賮蹖 賲蹖卮賴 丕賲丕 乇賮鬲賴 乇賮鬲賴 丕蹖賳 賯丕胤毓蹖鬲 讴賲乇賳诏 賲蹖卮賴.
鬲賵蹖 賯爻賲鬲 賴丕蹖蹖 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 亘賴 丕蹖乇丕賳 賵 丕賳賯賱丕亘卮 丕卮丕乇賴 賲蹖卮賴 賵 賴乇趩賳丿 丿乇丿賳丕讴 賵賱蹖 丕卮丕乇賴 亘賴 丕蹖賳 氐賵乇鬲 賴爻鬲 讴賴 鬲乇讴蹖賴 賳亘丕蹖丿 鬲賵蹖 賲爻蹖乇蹖 丨乇讴鬲 讴賳賴 讴賴 亘賴 噩賲賴賵乇蹖 丕爻賱丕賲蹖 丿賵賲蹖 鬲賵蹖 丿賳蹖丕 鬲亘丿蹖賱 亘卮賴!
趩賳丿 賳讴鬲賴!
亘乇賮 爻丕賱賴丕 鬲乇噩賲賴 賲賳丕爻亘蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲. 丕賲丕 亘毓丿 丕蹖賳 賲丿鬲 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 亘賱丕禺乇賴 丕賵賳賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賲賳鬲馗乇卮 亘賵丿賳丿 賲蹖鬲賵賳賳 亘丕 禺蹖丕賱 乇丕丨鬲 亘乇賳 爻乇丕睾 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丕蹖賳 鬲乇噩賲賴.
倬蹖卮賳賴丕丿 賲蹖卮賴 丕诏乇 賯亘賱丕 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丕夭 倬丕賲賵讴 乇賵 賲胤丕賱毓賴 賳讴乇丿蹖丿 賵 賲蹖禺賵丕蹖丿 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丌卮賳丕 亘卮蹖丿 亘丕 讴鬲丕亘蹖 睾蹖乇 丕夭 亘乇賮 卮乇賵毓 讴賳蹖丿 趩賵賳 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 丕蹖賳 毓丿賲 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕毓孬 賲蹖卮賴 丕賵賳 賱匕鬲 賲賵乇丿 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 乇賵 賳亘乇蹖丿. 亘乇賮 乇賵 亘匕丕乇蹖丿 丕賵賳 丕賵丕禺乇 賱蹖爻鬲 倬丕賲賵讴. 丕诏乇 賴賲 賲蹖禺賵丕蹖丿 亘乇賮 乇賵 卮乇賵毓 讴賳蹖丿 丨丿丕賯賱 蹖讴 爻乇趩 丕賵賱蹖賴 丿乇亘丕乇賴 丕賵賳 丿賵乇丕賳 鬲乇讴蹖賴 賵 賲丿丕乇爻 丕賲丕賲 禺胤蹖亘 賵 卮賴乇 讴丕乇爻 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖丿 鬲賵蹖 乇賵賳丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賴鬲賵賳 禺蹖賱蹖 讴賲讴 賲蹖讴賳賴.
卮禺氐 禺賵丿 丌賯丕蹖 倬丕賲賵讴 賴賲 鬲賵蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丨囟賵乇 丿丕乇賴 賵 丨鬲蹖 毓丕卮賯 賴賲 賲蹖卮賴!
賳賵卮鬲賴 賴丕蹖 倬丕賲賵讴 丿乇 毓蹖賳 丕蹖賳讴賴 亘爻蹖丕乇 亘乇丕蹖 賲丕 賲乇丿賲 丕蹖乇丕賳 賲蹖鬲賵賳賴 賲賱賲賵爻 賵 賯丕亘賱 丿乇讴 亘丕卮賴 丕賲丕 禺蹖賱蹖 賲賵乇丿 倬爻賳丿 賵 爻賱蹖賯賴 賳亘賵丿賴 鬲丕 亘賴 丕賲乇賵夭 丿賱丕蹖賱 賲鬲毓丿丿蹖 賴賲 賲蹖卮賴 亘乇丕卮 卮賲乇丿 賲孬賱 丕蹖賳讴賴 亘毓囟蹖 賴丕 毓賯蹖丿賴 丿丕乇賳丿 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 亘丕 讴蹖賮蹖鬲 乇賵 賯胤毓丕 賳賲蹖卮賴 鬲賵蹖 鬲乇讴蹖賴 蹖丕賮鬲 讴乇丿 讴賴 禺亘 讴丕賲賱丕 丕卮鬲亘丕賴賴. 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖 倬丕賲賵讴 胤賵乇蹖 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賮賯胤 亘蹖爻鬲 丿乇氐丿 賲胤丕賱亘 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 鬲卮讴蹖賱 丿丕丿賴 亘丕卮賴 賵 倬乇 丕夭 诏賮鬲诏賵 賵 亘丨孬 賵 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賵 爻蹖丕爻鬲 賵 賴賳乇 賵 蹖丕 亘賴鬲乇 亘诏賲 讴賵賱丕跇 丕夭 賴乇 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 賲賲讴賳 亘丕卮賴 倬爻 賳爻亘鬲丕 丨噩蹖賲 賵 讴賳丿禺賵丕賳 倬蹖卮 賲蹖乇賴 賵 亘毓囟蹖 賯爻賲鬲 賴丕 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賲乇賵乇 賵 鬲賮讴乇 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丿丕乇賴 賵 氐乇賮丕 蹖讴 讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕蹖 倬乇讴乇丿賳 丕賵賯丕鬲 賮乇丕睾鬲 賳蹖爻鬲.
賳賴賲 丌亘丕賳 氐賮乇 丿賵
May 6, 2010
I read excellent reviews here ; which convinced me that I can not add any new ! but since I am a Muslim & An Arab ; I could feel a lot of the depth of this book which showed me Turkey with a very cruel -but caring- anatomy that even the brilliant sarcasm made it more painful! By considering this fictional book as a new and useful approach for me to what are not so far different wounds from ours ; I will write my words 鈥�
For me ; it is a magnificent novel , a heart breaking one ; discussing the contemporary Turkish conflict between political Islam , tradition & even on a bigger scale .. the national identity - from a side and secularism , modernization & westernization - from the other side . this conflict was presented in the novel by fanatics from both sides producing a complete bloody chaos , with the poverty & unemployment as the main feeder for its continuity ! but this analysis - which is done by both: a political & a philosophical methods - was not dry , it Was sensed through icons ..people .. lives that I can feel , get closer to & share the darkness they had in 3 days of isolation to its extreme , Yes .. the main events took place in only 3 days ! so the novel has a slow melody , but even though ; it is full of unexpected turns !
with Orhan almost taking no sides .. no right or wrong , he let me assume what I want & try to answer the un-answered questions !
Orhan is not easy to read , I stopped at his intellectual conversations a lot ; doing my best to understand . I loved his characters with their human weakness , confusion & passion , I will never forget Ka with his loneliness & desperation ..regrets & his sad love story , or his words :
鈥滺ere I am , abandoned & wasting away . I carry the scars of unbearable suffering on every inch of my body . sometimes I believe it鈥檚 not just you I鈥檝e lost, but everything in the world 鈥�
I can not stop thinking of Blue ! how much he angered me & confused me ! His statement :鈥漌hen the Ayatollah Khomeini said that (the most important thing today is not to pray or fast but to protect the Islamic faith ) I believed him 鈥� may explain the huge range of confusing contradictions about how a religion can be manipulated with ! I could not totally hate him nor avoiding feeling sorry for his destiny , because of the blurring facts around him that leads to the uncertainty about the other face of any coin !
And the most of all :I will keep wondering about Ipek and Kadife ; their weird relation! And the feminine role in general ; keeping in mind that the suicide girls is a main debate in this novel .
I think this novel will stay with me for a long time , just keeping me wonder & cry ..?!
For me ; it is a magnificent novel , a heart breaking one ; discussing the contemporary Turkish conflict between political Islam , tradition & even on a bigger scale .. the national identity - from a side and secularism , modernization & westernization - from the other side . this conflict was presented in the novel by fanatics from both sides producing a complete bloody chaos , with the poverty & unemployment as the main feeder for its continuity ! but this analysis - which is done by both: a political & a philosophical methods - was not dry , it Was sensed through icons ..people .. lives that I can feel , get closer to & share the darkness they had in 3 days of isolation to its extreme , Yes .. the main events took place in only 3 days ! so the novel has a slow melody , but even though ; it is full of unexpected turns !
with Orhan almost taking no sides .. no right or wrong , he let me assume what I want & try to answer the un-answered questions !
Orhan is not easy to read , I stopped at his intellectual conversations a lot ; doing my best to understand . I loved his characters with their human weakness , confusion & passion , I will never forget Ka with his loneliness & desperation ..regrets & his sad love story , or his words :
鈥滺ere I am , abandoned & wasting away . I carry the scars of unbearable suffering on every inch of my body . sometimes I believe it鈥檚 not just you I鈥檝e lost, but everything in the world 鈥�
I can not stop thinking of Blue ! how much he angered me & confused me ! His statement :鈥漌hen the Ayatollah Khomeini said that (the most important thing today is not to pray or fast but to protect the Islamic faith ) I believed him 鈥� may explain the huge range of confusing contradictions about how a religion can be manipulated with ! I could not totally hate him nor avoiding feeling sorry for his destiny , because of the blurring facts around him that leads to the uncertainty about the other face of any coin !
And the most of all :I will keep wondering about Ipek and Kadife ; their weird relation! And the feminine role in general ; keeping in mind that the suicide girls is a main debate in this novel .
I think this novel will stay with me for a long time , just keeping me wonder & cry ..?!
December 12, 2007
I would not have finished this book except for reading it for the book club. I haven't been this bored by a book in a long time.
February 13, 2018
And the quiet of this empty city was as if the world had come to an end, and it was snowing.
If this were the beginning of a poem, he would have called the thing he felt inside him the silence of snow.
He walked the city in the cold, alone with his poems. Around him, snowflakes formed a blanket of white silence. He traversed Kars, a remote city in Turkey, where he found the poor forgotten, where democracy he saw was nonexistent and the Western world shunned. He, a prodigal son, never fully welcomed, a loner misunderstood, a man with the sort of angst only seen clearly through poetry. There, like the snow, he walked the city quietly, thoughtfully, observantly, deliberately, and Kars became his muse.
Can one ever know the underpinnings of a man's heart when he is in love with a woman at the same time he is in love with the art of poetry? What explains best the shards of a person's soul when he is faced with a home no longer familiar, a city no longer his, a woman who was never his, a mindset unique from that of his peers? Loneliness and despondency are certainly themes in this book, as Ka is faced with those darkening thoughts, even as he experiences moments of euphoria. Politics and religion are bigger themes threaded in each chapter and the socio-political-economic climate unfolds with consistency. This is not the easiest book to maneuver, not the simplest unfolding of plots, but it certainly is intriguing to visit the mind of a political exile, to visit the daily lives of characters trapped behind vocal cages within their own homeland.
If this were the beginning of a poem, he would have called the thing he felt inside him the silence of snow.
He walked the city in the cold, alone with his poems. Around him, snowflakes formed a blanket of white silence. He traversed Kars, a remote city in Turkey, where he found the poor forgotten, where democracy he saw was nonexistent and the Western world shunned. He, a prodigal son, never fully welcomed, a loner misunderstood, a man with the sort of angst only seen clearly through poetry. There, like the snow, he walked the city quietly, thoughtfully, observantly, deliberately, and Kars became his muse.
But- just as the poem itself defies easy explanation - it is difficult to say how much he decided at that moment and how much of his life was determined by the hidden symmetries this book is seeking to unveil.
Can one ever know the underpinnings of a man's heart when he is in love with a woman at the same time he is in love with the art of poetry? What explains best the shards of a person's soul when he is faced with a home no longer familiar, a city no longer his, a woman who was never his, a mindset unique from that of his peers? Loneliness and despondency are certainly themes in this book, as Ka is faced with those darkening thoughts, even as he experiences moments of euphoria. Politics and religion are bigger themes threaded in each chapter and the socio-political-economic climate unfolds with consistency. This is not the easiest book to maneuver, not the simplest unfolding of plots, but it certainly is intriguing to visit the mind of a political exile, to visit the daily lives of characters trapped behind vocal cages within their own homeland.
September 3, 2021
To historia i艣cie kafkowska. Ju偶 samo imi臋, kt贸rego u偶ywa g艂贸wny bohater, ma co艣 z Kafki. Nazywa si臋 Ka, a st膮d przecie偶 blisko do J贸zefa K.
Bohater 艣niegu, jak bohater "Zamku" Kafki, przyje偶d偶a we w艂asnej sprawie, ale porywa go pr膮d wydarze艅. Ka pr贸buje realizowa膰 swoje plany, podejmuje w艂asne decyzj臋, ale Kars, miasto, do kt贸rego dotar艂, wci膮ga go coraz g艂臋biej, jakby zabieraj膮c podmiotowo艣膰.
W tym wci膮ganiu miasto jest niezwykle intensywne i konsekwentne, co na pocz膮tku wydawa艂o mi si臋 nierealistyczne, bo jak to jest, 偶e pierwszego dnia pobytu Ka poznaje wszystkie niemal najwa偶niejsze osoby w mie艣cie, nawet te, kt贸re ukrywaj膮 si臋 od lat i kt贸rych nie mog膮 namierzy膰 s艂u偶by specjalne. Ale taki jest Kars, dziwny, goteskowy, nawet magiczny, bo w jakim mie艣cie gazeta drukowana we wtorek opisuje wydarzenia, do kt贸rych dojdzie w 艣rod臋?
Tylko 偶e to jest pierwszy poziom. Drugi to genialnie pokazany problem zderzenia 艣wiata 艣wieckiego z religijnym, fundamentalistycznym, 艣wiata liberalnego z konserwatywnym. I czy mo偶emy m贸wi膰 tu o zderzeniu, czy sprz臋偶eniu mi臋dzy tymi 艣wiatami?
Nigdy, w 偶adnym reporta偶u, nikt nie pokaza艂 mi z tak wielu stron tego problemu, nie sprowokowa艂 do ty艂u przemy艣le艅 na ten temat, jak Pamuk w "艢niegu".
Co ciekawe, w tym kontek艣cie, czytaj膮c, wiele razy my艣la艂em o Polsce.
Polecam bardzo serdecznie.
Bohater 艣niegu, jak bohater "Zamku" Kafki, przyje偶d偶a we w艂asnej sprawie, ale porywa go pr膮d wydarze艅. Ka pr贸buje realizowa膰 swoje plany, podejmuje w艂asne decyzj臋, ale Kars, miasto, do kt贸rego dotar艂, wci膮ga go coraz g艂臋biej, jakby zabieraj膮c podmiotowo艣膰.
W tym wci膮ganiu miasto jest niezwykle intensywne i konsekwentne, co na pocz膮tku wydawa艂o mi si臋 nierealistyczne, bo jak to jest, 偶e pierwszego dnia pobytu Ka poznaje wszystkie niemal najwa偶niejsze osoby w mie艣cie, nawet te, kt贸re ukrywaj膮 si臋 od lat i kt贸rych nie mog膮 namierzy膰 s艂u偶by specjalne. Ale taki jest Kars, dziwny, goteskowy, nawet magiczny, bo w jakim mie艣cie gazeta drukowana we wtorek opisuje wydarzenia, do kt贸rych dojdzie w 艣rod臋?
Tylko 偶e to jest pierwszy poziom. Drugi to genialnie pokazany problem zderzenia 艣wiata 艣wieckiego z religijnym, fundamentalistycznym, 艣wiata liberalnego z konserwatywnym. I czy mo偶emy m贸wi膰 tu o zderzeniu, czy sprz臋偶eniu mi臋dzy tymi 艣wiatami?
Nigdy, w 偶adnym reporta偶u, nikt nie pokaza艂 mi z tak wielu stron tego problemu, nie sprowokowa艂 do ty艂u przemy艣le艅 na ten temat, jak Pamuk w "艢niegu".
Co ciekawe, w tym kontek艣cie, czytaj膮c, wiele razy my艣la艂em o Polsce.
Polecam bardzo serdecznie.
April 28, 2024
El poeta Ka, vuelve de visita a Estambul desde su exilio alem谩n. All铆 aceptar谩 un encargo period铆stico que le ofrece un amigo, para cubrir dos noticias en la lejana ciudad de Kars, d贸nde quedar谩 atrapado por una tormenta de nieve que a铆sla la ciudad.
Durante su estancia conocer谩 el amor, que, junto con la fascinaci贸n por la nieve, le inspirar谩 una prol铆fica creaci贸n po茅tica. Pero la situaci贸n en Kars es todo menos id铆lica; tensiones entre laicistas e islamistas, la latente rebeli贸n de los nacionalistas kurdos, y una obra de teatro alucinada que desencadenar谩 un golpe militar sostenido por el aislamiento.
Mientras Ka se mueve entre los distintos actores de la ciudad, protegido por su inocencia, aunque sospechado por todos.
A帽os despu茅s, aparecer谩 el narrador, Ohran, tratando de recuperar el cuaderno d贸nde registr贸 sus poemas, y siguiendo los pasos de Ka en Kars.
Una novela bien narrada, de largo aliento, con el trasfondo de los conflictos irresueltos de Turqu铆a, en el que por momentos es dif铆cil saber qu茅 papel juega cada personaje. Surgen el tema del amor, de la felicidad, la poes铆a y la posibilidad de comunicaci贸n entre los seres humanos, m谩s all谩 de su circunstancia. Me ha costado, pero me ha gustado, y me ha dejado pensando mucho.
Orhan Pamuk escribi贸 esta novela en 2002, y junto a una serie de art铆culos period铆sticos referentes al genocidio armenio, le vali贸 un juicio y una condena a muerte, de la que pudo liberarse por la presi贸n internacional. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2006 y vive actualmente en Alemania.
Durante su estancia conocer谩 el amor, que, junto con la fascinaci贸n por la nieve, le inspirar谩 una prol铆fica creaci贸n po茅tica. Pero la situaci贸n en Kars es todo menos id铆lica; tensiones entre laicistas e islamistas, la latente rebeli贸n de los nacionalistas kurdos, y una obra de teatro alucinada que desencadenar谩 un golpe militar sostenido por el aislamiento.
Mientras Ka se mueve entre los distintos actores de la ciudad, protegido por su inocencia, aunque sospechado por todos.
A帽os despu茅s, aparecer谩 el narrador, Ohran, tratando de recuperar el cuaderno d贸nde registr贸 sus poemas, y siguiendo los pasos de Ka en Kars.
Una novela bien narrada, de largo aliento, con el trasfondo de los conflictos irresueltos de Turqu铆a, en el que por momentos es dif铆cil saber qu茅 papel juega cada personaje. Surgen el tema del amor, de la felicidad, la poes铆a y la posibilidad de comunicaci贸n entre los seres humanos, m谩s all谩 de su circunstancia. Me ha costado, pero me ha gustado, y me ha dejado pensando mucho.
Orhan Pamuk escribi贸 esta novela en 2002, y junto a una serie de art铆culos period铆sticos referentes al genocidio armenio, le vali贸 un juicio y una condena a muerte, de la que pudo liberarse por la presi贸n internacional. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2006 y vive actualmente en Alemania.
May 2, 2023
I generally get along with metafiction, but all through this work, I wondered about its uses here and waited for a payoff that didn鈥檛 arrive. If anything, the metafictional aspects thwarted suspense and revelation, and I doubt that was the author鈥檚 intent. The doubling of certain characters didn鈥檛 feel particularly useful either. But that may be because I get aggravated (and bored) with characters who fall in love, immediately, with another鈥檚 beauty, and think about it incessantly. Because of the doubling of the characters, I was exasperated (and bored) twice as much over this aspect.
One of the blurbs describes this as a 鈥減olitical novel鈥� and that may be my other issue. I realize all novels are political in some way, but I don鈥檛 engage easily with the political over the personal in novels, especially when the political is fanaticism, even if a work is so-called presenting both sides. I understand this is not a story of 鈥渞eality鈥濃€攖he way Ka writes his poems proves that. I recognize the novel鈥檚 absurdity鈥攊t felt Kafkaesque in the beginning; I also thought of Ishiguro鈥檚 鈥攂ut that also isn鈥檛 always to my taste and likely has a lot to do with why I didn鈥檛 fully engage with this book.
The writing itself is fine and that鈥檚 why I was able to keep reading. I noted the several references to Russian writers and their novels (that might be the most fun I had reading this), but I don鈥檛 know why they鈥檙e there.
One of the blurbs describes this as a 鈥減olitical novel鈥� and that may be my other issue. I realize all novels are political in some way, but I don鈥檛 engage easily with the political over the personal in novels, especially when the political is fanaticism, even if a work is so-called presenting both sides. I understand this is not a story of 鈥渞eality鈥濃€攖he way Ka writes his poems proves that. I recognize the novel鈥檚 absurdity鈥攊t felt Kafkaesque in the beginning; I also thought of Ishiguro鈥檚 鈥攂ut that also isn鈥檛 always to my taste and likely has a lot to do with why I didn鈥檛 fully engage with this book.
The writing itself is fine and that鈥檚 why I was able to keep reading. I noted the several references to Russian writers and their novels (that might be the most fun I had reading this), but I don鈥檛 know why they鈥檙e there.
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