Orhan Pamuk

Istanbul

Title: Istanbul

Author: Orhan Pamuk

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Language: English

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"Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art
criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Orhan Pamuk invents an
ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with
his childhood among the eccentric extended Pamuk family in the dusty, carpeted, and
hermetically sealed apartment building they shared. In this place came his first intimations of the
melancholy awareness that binds all residents of his city together: that of living in the seat of
ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become "modern" at the dizzying crossroads of
East and West. This elegiac communal spirit overhangs Pamuk's reflections as he introduces
the writers and painters (among the latter, most particularly the German Antoine-Ignace Melling)
through whose eyes he came to see Istanbul. Against a background of shattered monuments,
neglected villas, ghostly backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he
presents the interplay of his budding sense of place with that of his predecessors. And he charts
the evolution of a rich, sometimes macabre, imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy
refuge from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to serve the famous
writer he was to become. It was, and remains, a life fed by the changing microcosm of the
apartment building and, even more, the beckoning kaleidoscope beyond its walls."

Insightful reviews
htanzil: Istanbul adalah memoar dari peraih nobel sastra 2006 asal Turki, Orhan Pamuk. Namun
berbeda dengan memoar-memoar lainnya yang biasanya lebih mengutamakan kisah hidup si
penulisnya, dalam memoarnya ini Pamuk tak hanya berkisah mengenai sejarah hidupnya.
Dengan cara betutur seperti dalam novel-novelnya , Pamuk mencatat penggalan memori
kehidupan masa lalunya yang dikaitkan dengan memori kolektif Istanbul, kota kelahirannya
yang begitu ia cintai. Jadi bisa disimpulkan bahwa buku ini merupakan serpihan-serpihan
memoar dan essai panjang Pamuk tentang dirinya danIstanbul

Bagi Pamuk yang begitu lekat dengan kota kelahirannya, takdir Istanbul adalah takdir dirinya
sebab Istanbullah yang membuat dirinya seperti sekarang ini. Istanbul baginya adalah mata air
yang terus menerus memberinya inspirasi. Tak heran jika sebagian besar novel-novelnya
berlatar Istanbul, kota yang merupakan warisan kesultanan Usmani yang tak henti bergumul
dengan identitas Barat dan Timur. Begitupun dalam memoarnya ini, di mata Pamuk, Istanbul
dimetaforkan sebagai mahluk yang berwajah murung, atau istilah dalam bahasa arabnya
adalah “huzun”.

Setelah Kesultanan Usmani ambruk, dunia nyaris lupa bahwa Istanbul ada. Kota tempat saya
dilahirkan ini lebih miskin, lebih kumuh, dan lebih terasing ketimbang sebelumnya selama
sejarahnya sepanjang dua ribu tahun. Bagi saya, Istanbul selalu merupakan kota penuh
reruntuhan dan kemurungan masa akhir kesultanan. Saya menghabiskan hidup memerangi
kermurungan ini atau (seperti semua penduduk Istanbul) menjadikannya kemurungan saya. (hal
7)

Istanbul modern dalam kacamata Pamuk memang telah mengalami kemunduran sejak jatuhnya
Kesultanan dan berdirinya pemintahan Republik dengan reformasinya yang dipimpin oleh
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (pendiri Turki dan presiden pertama Turki). Bagi Ataturk satu-satunya
jalan untuk melangkah maju adalah mengembangkan konsep baru mengenai ke-Turkian yag
modern, sayangnya konsep ini dilakukan dengan cara melupakan masa lalu sehingga kultur,
seperti bahasa dan pakaian tradisional, dilupakan. Bahkan literatur tradisional pun dilupakan.

Kemurungan Istanbullah yang menjadi benang merah seluruh kisah dalam memoarnya ini.
Karenanya jangan harap dalam memoarnya ini kita akan disuguhkan panorama keindahan
Istanbul, alih-alih membicarakan bangunan megah Hagai Sophia atau situs-situs bersejarah
lainnya, kita malah akan disuguhkan deskripsi rumah-rumah kayu yang kumuh yang dibangun
diatas reruntuhan bangunan megah dari era kejayaan kesultanan Usmani dan kehancuran puri-
puri para Pasha karena tak terawat atau terbakar.

Dalam memoarnya ini, wajah Istanbul modern yang kini semakin carut marut itu dikisahkan
secara parallel dengan kehidupan masa lalu Pamuk yang dilahirkan dari keluarga kelas
menengah yang hidup dalam budaya sekuler Barat. Dengan begitu hidup Pamuk menceritakan
tentang dirinya dan keluarganya, apartemen-apartemen yang pernah didiaminya, jalan-jalan
yang sering dilaluinya, peristiwa-peristiwa yang pernah dialaminya, kisah cinta pertamanya
yang kandas, serta keinginannya yang besar untuk menjadi pelukis sebelum ia banting setir
dan akhirnya memutuskan untuk menjadi penulis.

Karena setiap jejak langkah masa lalu Pamuk senantiasa dikaitkan dengan memori kolektif
Istanbul maka daya pikat memoar ini bukan hanya terletak pengalaman pribadi penulisnya,
melainkan dalam identifikasi puitisnya dengan Istanbul . Hasilnya adalah semacam essai yang
berisi sejarah dan kehidupan sosial masyarakat Istanbul baik dari apa yang diperolehnya dari
pengalaman dan risetnya sendiri maupun dari catatan orang-orang yang pernah menulis
sejarah Istanbul seperti, Yahya Kemal, seorang penyair, Resat Ekrem Kocu, seorang
sejarawan, Tampinar, seorang novelis, dan Abdulhak Sinasi Hisar, seorang kronologis.
Sedangkan untuk penulis barat terwakili oleh Gerard du Nerval, Teophile Gautier, Gustave
Flaubert.

Untuk lebih menghidupi memoarnya ini, Pamuk juga menampilkan ratusan foto hitam putih baik
yang berasal dari koleksi keluarga Pamuk sendiri maupun foto-foto Istanbul karya fotografer
lokal, Ara Guller. Dan yang tak kalah menarik adalah foto-foto lukisan engraving Antoine-Ignace
Melling, pelukis Jerman yang merekam Istanbul di abad ke 18. Jika foto-foto karya Ara Guller
didominasi wajah Istanbul modern yang muram, maka pada karya Mellinglah keindahan masa
lalu Istanbul terungkap.

Sebagai seorang novelis terkemuka, Pamuk menyajikan memoarnya ini dengan begitu menarik
dan hidup sehingga membaca ke 37 bab kisahnya tak membuat kita bosan kendati dia
terkadang menceritakan hal-hal yang sederhana yang pernah dialaminya. Hal-hal sederhana itu
ia hubungkan dengan, lukisan, buku-buku, landskap, bangunan kuno, legenda, sejarah, politik,
dll sehingga potret dirinya dan Istanbul terekam dengan menarik.

Sayangnya memoar Pamuk terhenti di era 70-an ketika Pamuk memutuskan merubah jalan
hidupnya dari seorang pelukis menjadi seorang penulis. Jadi dalam memoar setebal 363
halaman ini kita tak akan menemukan jejak Pamuk dan Istabul ketika ia meniti kariernya
sebagai seorang penulis. Semenjak kecil hingga menjadi seorang mahasiswa arsitektur
tampaknya tak ada tanda-tanda Pamuk yang kelak akan menjadi seorang penulis terkenal
kecuali kesenangannya membaca.
Akhir kata novel yang terbit untuk pertama kalinya pada tahun 2003 dalam bahasa Turki
dengan judul Istanbul : Hatiralar ve Sehir ini memang sangat-sangat menarik, kisah kehidupan
Pamuk, pergumulan batinnya , serta responnya atas lingkungan yang membesarkannya
membawa pembacanya pada sebuah perenungan yang dalam. Berbagai kisah mengenai
Istanbul membuat kita memahami sejarah dan kultur Istanbul modern di tahun 50-70an yang
menyiratkan wajah Turki yang murung dan terbelahnya kultur masyarakat Turki antara Islam
dan sekularisasi, modern dan tradisional, timur dan barat, yang ternyata masih bisa dirasakan
hingga kini.

Seperti yang ditulis oleh Irish Times sebagai pujian untuk buku ini bahwa memoar Pamuk ini
layak disejajarkan dengan karya-karya terbaik Pamuk dan buku-buku terbaik yang pernah
ditulis mengenai Istanbul. Buku ini wajib dibaca dan kota itu wajib dikunjungi.

Chris: This is the second book by Pamuk that I have read. I would like to point out that it seems
that this book should be read either before or after The Museum of Innocence because I found
myself making it notes of where the novel and this memoir collide.

I've never been to Istanbul, but now I want to go. What Pamuk does is not only describe his
family but a city as a conflict between East and West. While it is not something that my own
western city feels, it is somewhat akin to the feeling that Philadelphia has of being mashed
between N.Y. and D.C. (Though in this day and age, it is a good thing that everyone forgets
about us).

The book is part biography and part meditation on culture and its feeling of lost youth and
innocence carries though to The Museum of Innocence. There are some places in the novel
where you will laugh out aloud, for example where Pamuk apolgies to everyone he imagined
killing or dying. There are also some extremely moving passages, not just in describing his
family, or the feeling of Istanbul, but his only place in society.

I do wish, however, that more infromation about the pictures was given and I do wish that they
had captions.

Eric: Pamuk adds another layer to Istanbul’s proverbial description as “the bridge between east
and west” by showing how the major Istanbul modernists – poet Yahya Kemal and novelist A.H.
Tanpinar, new names to me, I have to follow up – derived a poetics of post-imperial ennui and
urban decay from the melancholic image of their city recorded or dreamed by travelling French
writers in the nineteenth century. “[T]he roots of our hüzün [urban melancholy] are European:
the concept was first explored, expressed and poeticized in French,” he writes. And the
nineteenth century French, the literary critics will tell you, were dealing with their own post-
Napoleonic, post-imperial fatigue, and a Mal du siècle which made for what is called a “Late”
Romanticism: dark, sexually anguished and routinely syphilitic (“The day the young writer
corrects his first proofs he is as proud as the schoolboy who has just caught his first dose of the
clap” - Baudelaire), as well as more perverse and pessimistic than the verdant and Liberty-
extolling English variety (outcast, exiled, dark-locked Lord Byron being the founding hero, the
revolting Satan for the French Romantics). I love that whole nervous crew; the Horror of Life
Club, with their flamboyant despair and macabre brilliance (an 1874 entry of the Goncourt
Journal begins, “Dinner at the Café Riche with Flaubert, Turgenev, Zola...We began a long
discussion of the special aptitudes of writers suffering from constipation and diarrhea; and we
went on to talk about the mechanics of the French language”). For such Istanbul visitors as
Gautier, Nerval, and Flaubert melancholy was salutary and decadence authentic, the human
norm. They relished the “Orient” for what they saw as its frank spectacles of violence and
decay. Flaubert was especially taken with what he saw as the unworried kinship of pomp and
squalor; writing a friend from Istanbul in November 1850, he marveled at the “splendid faces,
iridescent existences that glisten and gleam, exceedingly various in their riches and robes, rich
in filth, in their tatters and finery. And there beneath it all, the old immutable, perennial
rascality.” – antiquity and authenticity in contrast to the European bourgeoisie’s fatuous
conflation of moral and material progress, its aesthetics of engineering, its religion of
convenience. When the Istanbul modernists, like all the other modernists, made their
pilgrimages to the French wellsprings, they found their city already a literary image of
melancholy – and just in time, what with Istanbul now the defunct capital of a fallen empire,
poor, isolated, and afflicted by Westernizing republicans – a virulently progressive form of
authoritarian bourgeois, in Pamuk’s picture – eager to raze the old Ottoman mansions and pour
concrete Corbusian apartment blocks in their place. I thought of Baudelaire on the demolitions
of medieval Paris – “the form of a city changes more quickly, alas! than the human heart.”

My favorite sections of the book were those devoted to Istanbul writers. Kemal and Tanpinar
had two interesting associates, bachelor flâneurs like themselves: the Proust-like recluse
Abdülhak ?inasi Hisar, and the historian Re?at Ekrem Koçu, compiler of the lurid and
idiosyncratic Istanbul Encyclopedia (its entries on Ottoman torture devices and techniques
thrilled young Orhan) who lived alone amid ceiling-high piles of nineteenth century newspapers
and archival scraps. I love the image of a coterie of urban dreamers engrossed by a city, people
for whom the layered landscape of their 2,500 year old home is a complete cosmos, the
inexhaustible ground for diverse passions – creative and curatorial, novelistic and antiquarian;
sexual, architectural, philosophical. (I think of Joseph Cornell reading Mallarmé after a day
rummaging in New York City’s junk shops.) Pamuk is, of course, one of these writers. I was
deeply impressed to read that the composition of his latest novel, The Museum of Innocence,
was preceded by two decades of collecting hundreds of objects that would “belong” to the
characters and figure in the book. And then he opened a real museum to display the collection.
Elif Batuman in the London Review of Books:

The inspiration for the Museum of Innocence came to Pamuk in 1982, while he was
having dinner with the last prince of the Ottoman dynasty. Exiled after the formation of
the Turkish republic, the prince ended up in Alexandria and worked for decades at the
Antoniadis Palace museum, first as a ticket collector and then as director. Now, back in
Istanbul after a fifty-year exile, he needed a job. The guests discussed the delicate
 subject of employment for the straitened septuagenarian prince of a defunct empire.
Someone said the Ihlamur Palace museum might need a guide: who better than the
prince, who had lived there as a child? Pamuk was immediately taken by the idea of a
man who outlives his era and becomes the guide to his own house-museum. He
imagined how the prince would greet visitors – ‘Ladies and gentlemen! Seventy years
ago, in this room, I sat with my aide-de-camp and studied mathematics!’ – before
crossing the velvet cordon to sit once more at his childhood desk, demonstrating how he
had held the pencil and ruler.

Ten years later, Pamuk came up with an insane plan: to write a novel in the form of a
museum catalogue, while simultaneously building the museum to which it referred. The
plot of the novel would be fairly straightforward: over many years, an unhappy lover
contrives to steal a large number of objects belonging to his unattainable beloved, after
whose untimely death he proceeds to buy her family’s house and turn it into a museum.
You might think that Pamuk’s first step, as a writer, would have been to start writing. In
fact, his first step was to contact a real-estate agent. He needed to buy a house for his
future heroine, Füsun. During the 1990s, Pamuk visited hundreds of properties, trying to
imagine Füsun and her parents living in them. It was beyond his means to purchase a
whole building in Ni?anta?i, the posh neighbourhood inhabited by Kemal, the hero of the
novel. He could afford a single floor in a stone building in the old Ottoman commercial
centre of Galata, but then the remodelling would be difficult...

For the next ten years, writing and shopping proceeded in a dialectical relationship.
Pamuk would buy objects that caught his eye, and wait for the novel to ‘swallow’ them,
demanding, in the process, the purchase of further objects. Occasionally an object
refused to be swallowed, as happened with some carriage lanterns and an old gas
meter. Pamuk published The Museum of Innocence in 2008. It resembles less a
museum catalogue than a 600-page audio guide. A ticket printed in the back of each
copy grants one free entry to the museum. By that point he had already acquired nearly
all of Füsun’s belongings, so the museum could, in theory, have opened the next day.
But Pamuk was worried about the example of Edouard Dujardin, the French writer
sometimes credited with pioneering, in a largely forgotten text called Les Lauriers sont
coupés, the stream of consciousness. Pamuk didn’t want to be Dujardin. He wanted to
be Joyce. It wasn’t enough just to build the world’s first synergetic novel-museum. The
museum had to be a thing of beauty. He hired a team of artists and curators and worked
full time in the museum for several months, taking naps on Kemal’s bed in the attic.

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Simona: "La bellezza del landscape è nella sua tristezza".Parole come queste pronunciate da
Ahrmet Rasim a inizio libro sintetizzano perfettamente l'essenza di questa opera."Istanbul" non
è un romanzo, ma un diario di memorie, di ricordi in cui Pamuk ci mostra, ci descrive los
angeles sua Istanbul. Una Istanbul in cui domina los angeles tristezza, l. a. malinconia di certi
luoghi e del suo scrittore. los angeles Istanbul descritta da Pamuk suppose i contorni di una
terra ancorata al passato, ai suoi minareti e alla sua storia, come dimostrano le foto in bianco e
nero che sono presenti nel libro.Pamuk descrive l. a. sua Istanbul in base ai suoi ricordi, dalla
famiglia ai litigi con il fratello, sino al suo desiderio di vivere di sola pittura. Una Istanbul, atipica
diversa dal solito, think i colori chiaroscuri di una città che, spero un giorno, di poter visitare.

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