Istanbul : memories and the city
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400033881
- ISBN: 1400033888
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Physical Description:
xii, 384 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
print - Edition: 1st Vintage international ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2005. Translation of: Istanbul, hatŗalar ve sehir. Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Another orhan -- The photographs in the dark museum house -- "Me" -- The destruction of the Pashas' mansions: a sad tour of the streets -- Black and white -- Exploring the Bosphorus -- Melling's Bosphorus landscapes -- My mother, my father, and various disappearances -- Another house: Cihangir -- Hüzün -- Four lonely melancholic writers -- My grandmother -- The joy and monotony of school -- Esaelp gnittips on -- Ahmet Rasim and other city columnists -- Don't walk down the street with your mouth open -- The pleasures of painting -- Reðsat Ekrem Koçu's collection of facts and curiosities: The Istanbul Encyclopedia -- Conquest or decline? The Turkification of Constantinople -- Religion -- The rich -- On the ships that passed through the Bosphorus, famous fires, moving house, and other disasters -- Nerval in Istanbul: Beyoæglu walks -- Gautier's melancholic strolls through the city -- Under western eyes -- The melancholy of the ruins: Tanpinar and Yahya Kemal in the city's poor neighborhoods -- The picturesque and the outlying neighborhoods -- Painting Istanbul -- Painting and family happiness -- The smoke rising from ships on the Bosphorus -- Flaubert in Istanbul: east, west and syphilis -- Fights with my older brother -- A foreigner in a foreign school -- To be unhappy is to hate oneself and one's city -- First love -- The ship on the Golden Horn -- A conversation with my mother: patience, caution, and art. |
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