Margreet Dorleijn Libros

Posle ove knjige Istok nije ono što je bio pre. Orhan Pamuk ovoga puta vaskrsava čudesni svet Orijenta s njegovim bojama, umetnošću, estetikom i tajanstvenim duhom. Zovem se Crveno je pripovest o umetnosti, ljubavi, sreći, životu, smrti, na trenutke rasprava o suštini islamske umetnosti i poimanja sveta, ispričana kroz sudbine slikara minijatura i kaligrafa u Carigradu s kraja 16. veka. Bogatstvo jezika, obilje slika, asocijacija, poniranje u bit islamske civilizacije i njene dodire s renesansnim duhom, jedinstvena kompozicija i struktura dela potvrđuju da je Orhan Pamuk jedan od najvećih pisaca dvadeset prvog veka. Veza između prošlog i sadašnjeg vremena sadržana je i u boji. Crveno je boja osvete i smrti, ali, ponajviše, boja strasti, nadahnuća i umetnosti. A možda je, po Pamuku, ime univerzuma - Crveno!

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times