The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307745252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red—an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels. In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between “naïve” writers—those who write spontaneously—and “sentimental” writers—those who are reflective and aware—Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey and the beloved novels of his youth to describe the singular experience of reading. Unique, nuanced, and passionate, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307745244
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742531776
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections. Pamuk draws on Friedrich Schiller's famous distinction between 'naive' poets - who write spontaneously, serenely, unselfconsciously - and 'sentimental' poets: those who are reflective, emotional, questioning, and alive to the artifice of the written word. Harking back to the beloved novels of his youth and ranging through the work of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul, he explores the oscillation between the naive and the reflective, and the search for an equilibrium, that lie at the center of the novelist's craft. He ponders the novel's visual and sensual power - its ability to conjure landscapes so vivid they can make the here-and-now fade away. In the course of this exploration, he considers the elements of character, plot, time, and setting that compose the 'sweet illusion' of the fictional world. Anyone who has known the pleasure of becoming immersed in a novel will enjoy, and learn from, this perceptive book by one of the modern masters of the art. 'He writes with an effortless authority, and deeply literate sophistications.' Peter Craven, The Age

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (PB)

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780143419112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (PB)

Author: Pamuk Orhan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780143419112
Category : Fiction
Languages : tr
Pages : 0

Book Description
He takes us through his own literary journey and looks at the works of writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul to describe the singular experience of reading. Unique, nuanced, and passionate, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.

Dear Sandy, Hello

Author: Ted Berrigan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566892490
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Letters illuminating a legendary literary love affair and the young artists who made 1960s New York the world's cultural capital.

Orhan Pamuk and the Poetics of Fiction

Author: Umer O. Thasneem
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527536556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
This volume marks an exhilarating tour through the mesmerizing and labyrinthine fictional world of the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. Despite being ranked alongside Marquez, Cortazar, Calvino, Borges and Eco, Pamuk is yet to receive due critical attention in the Anglophone world, where he has millions of readers. This book takes the reader on a fascinating ride through Pamuk’s novels from The Silent House, written in the early Eighties, to the recently published The Red Haired Woman. The nine novels that form the focus of this study straddle a period of more than three decades that witnessed the emergence of Pamuk as Turkey’s foremost novelist and a master fabulist. The book details the chemistry of the thematics and architectonics of Pamuk’s craft in a style shorn of dry pedantry and jargon trotting. Examining the intricate pattern of his creative topography in the light of theories ranging from psychoanalysis to spectral criticism, it represents a timely and illuminating contribution to the study of contemporary fiction.

Forget English!

Author: Aamir R. Mufti
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674915429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
World literature advocates have promised to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of national literary traditions. Aamir Mufti scrutinizes these claims and critiques the continuing dominance of English as both a literary language and the undisputed cultural system of global capitalism.

The White Castle

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184750749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
In the seventeenth century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople, into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja—‘master’—a man who is his exact double. Hoja wonders, given the knowledge of each other’s most intimate secrets, if they could actually exchange identities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colourful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination.

What Was African American Literature?

Author: Kenneth W. Warren
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674066294
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literatureÑand to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. In WarrenÕs view, African American literature begged the question: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African American literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point, Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an important journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon documents, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary practice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these writers in a politics that served the race as a whole. Finally, WarrenÕs work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us.