Other Colors: Essays and a Story

Orhan Pamuk's First Book Since Winning The Nobel Prize, Other Colors Is A Collection Of Essays On His Life, His City, His Work, And The Example Of Other Writers.--jacket. The Implied Author -- My Father -- Notes On April 19, 1994 -- Spring Afternoons -- Dead Tired In The Evening -- Out Of Bed, In The Silence Of Night -- When The Furniture Is Talking, How Can You Sleep? -- Giving Up Smoking -- Seagull In The Rain -- A Seagull Lies Dying On The Shore -- To Be Happy -- My Wristwatches -- I'm Not Going To School -- Rüya And Us -- When Rüya Is Sad -- The View -- What I Know About Dogs -- A Note On Poetic Justice -- After The Storm -- In This Place Long Ago -- The House Of The Man Who Has No One -- Barbers -- Fires And Ruins -- Frankfurter -- Bosphorus Ferries -- The Islands -- Earthquake -- Earthquake Angst In Istanbul -- How I Got Rid Of Some Of My Books -- On Reading: Words Or Images -- The Pleasures Of Reading -- Nine Notes On Book Covers -- To Read Or Not To Read : The Thousand And One Nights -- Foreword To Tristram Shandy: Everyone Should Have An Uncle Like This -- Victor Hugo's Passion For Greatness --^ Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground : The Joys Of Degradation -- Dostoyevsky's Fearsome Demons -- The Brothers Karamazov -- Cruelty, Beauty, And Time : On Nabokov's Ada And Lolita -- Albert Camus -- Reading Thomas Bernhard At A Time Of Unhappiness -- The World Of Thomas Bernhard's Novels -- Mario Vargas Llosa And Third World Literature -- Salman Rushdie : The Satanic Verses And The Freedom Of The Writer -- Pen Arthur Miller Speech -- No Entry -- Where Is Europe? -- A Guide To Being Mediterranean -- My First Passport And Other European Journeys -- André Gide -- Family Meals And Politics On Religious Holidays -- The Anger Of The Damned -- Traffic And Religion -- In Kars And Frankfurt -- On Trial -- Who Do You Write For? -- The White Castle Afterword -- The Black Book : Ten Years On -- A Selection From Interviews On The New Life -- A Selection From Interviews On My Name Is Red -- On My Name Is Red-- From The Snow In Kars Notebooks -- Şirin's Surprise --^ In The Forest And As Old As The World -- Murders By Unknown Assailants And Detective Novels -- Entr'acte; Or, Ah, Cleopatra! -- Why Didn't I Become An Architect? -- Selimiye Mosque -- Bellini And The East -- Black Pen -- Meaning -- My First Encounters With Americans -- Views From The Capital Of The World -- The Paris Review Interview -- To Look Out The Window -- My Father's Suitcase. Orhan Pamuk ; Translated From The Turkish By Maureen Freely. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.