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The graphomaniac

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April 2008, no. 300

Other Colours: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk (trans. By Maureen Freely)

Faber, $45 hb, 433 pp

The graphomaniac

by
April 2008, no. 300

Media discussion of the 2006 Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk, tends to focus on his political persecution at the hands of the Turkish state. Pamuk concedes that history has forced him to don a ‘political persona’, one that journalists and literary festival audiences are keen to encounter. Yet Pamuk’s new collection of essays, Other Colours: Essays and a Story, reveals where politics (or political commentary) and the writer of imaginative thinking part company.

Other Colours: Essays and a Story

Other Colours: Essays and a Story

by Orhan Pamuk (trans. By Maureen Freely)

Faber, $45 hb, 433 pp

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