Şemsa Gezgin Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or–hüzün–that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters–both Turkish and foreign–who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

Dej románu sa odohráva v priebehu desiatich dní roku 1591 v zasneženom Istanbule. Román má kriminálnu zápletku. Ako prvý z radu rozprávačov, medzi ktorých okrem živých ľudí patria aj obrazy a červená farba, sa o slovo hlási zavraždený.

Tajuplný plameň kráľovnej Loany je ďalšou zo série Ecových pôsobivých konštrukcií, využívajúcich konkrétne písomné zdroje. V tomto prípade však Ecova konštrukcia zasiahne čitateľa oveľa hlbšie, ak to mohol urobiť ktorýkoľvek z jeho predchádzajúcich románov: v dnešnom svete infarktov a mozgových príhod sa môže stať protagonistom Ecovho najnovšieho príbehu ktokoľvek z nás, ktokoľvek z nášho okolia. Kníhkupec-antikvár si po infarkte rekonštruuje pamäť, či skôr osobné spomienky, prostredníctvom písomností z pôjda a z pozostalosti starého otca. Ak si nepamätá nič zo svojho osobného života, v dokonale presnej podobe sa mu v pamäti vynára všetko, čo sa v nej nakopilo z prečítaných kníh: postavy, situácie, opisy, vety…