ISTANBUL: RECOLLECTIONS FROM A LOST CITY (Stambul: wspomnienia z utraconego miasta)

• Authors: Chmielewska Justyna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In his recently published autobiographical book: 'Istanbul: Memories and the City', Orhan Pamuk attempts to present a highly personal attitude to his birthplace where he spent a major part of his life. He seeks traces of Istanbul - as he would like to see it and remember it from his childhood - in texts, images and his own slightly enhanced experiences; in its present-day form the town appears to be nondescript, unworthy of attention and dilapidated. Istanbul is a journey to the past and a non-extant city, which, nonetheless, evokes a specific variety of Pamuk's favourite melancholy. It is a voyage amidst dusty stories by nineteenth-century authors-Orientalists and illustrations showing hills overgrown with cypresses. Finally, it is journey to a lost town -seized and overrun by successive tides of immigrants from the provinces, cultural aliens who, Pamuk seems to suggest, invaded his space, producing a specifically Istanbulian paradoxical feeling of a loss.

Keywords

EN

ISTANBUL; URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 1-2(284-285)
• Pages: 13-19
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chmielewska Justyna

• Justyna Chmielewska, c/o Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej, ul. Obozna 8, 00-325 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08294