We love reading Orhan Pamuk in Armenia. I hope people in Turkey also read Armenian writers. This is a great way to find avenues towards understanding and solving our conflict. P.S. I gave the book My Name is Red to this beautiful Turkish girl from my math class, since then we were best mates.
What's wrong with you people! Mr. Pamuk doesn't in any way have to be revered in English cuz it's not his mother tongue and English is not a key to judge once humanity or the writer's quality, and yet he's perfectly using it with a highly sophisticated vocabulary as an original English speaker could do... please get over the superficiality and listen to him, or better, grab one of his books and enjoy the wonderful art of description, details and the words' decorative embellishment.
Fantasti c interview! Thank you! Pamuk, I love your novels. I had to study a.lot to understand your 'world' and I LEARNED A LOT. THANK YOU. YOU BECAME MY FAVORITE WRITER. FL. USA
A finely balanced mind of an intellectual and writer. He speaks with an innocent heart & honest mind. Howmany among contemporary authors do it ? A big ?.
Some of you people below me are quite naive. Why would you think his English should be perfect? I recommend to all you , who criticize his language skills learn any foreign language...uhm perhaps French? or Turkish? I personally happen to speak 5 language but its quite hard to be fluent in all those languages besides English. So go grab a life
I love Turkish language, I don't enjoy reading poems in English but such a great joy when read in Turkish. Such an emotional language. Hüzün is one example as Orhan Pamuk puts it here.
It’s funny. In Peru, many internet trolls have the same opinion about Mario Vargas Llosa as some trolls who have written poisoning comments here. When politics (childish and foolish politics) is more important than literature itself for some people, opinions like these start to multiply. When I read The Time of Hero by Vargas Llosa when I was 18, I was impressed. Some years later, I read it again, and I still love that book. I am sure Carlos Barral didn’t get any money from Vargas Llosa. Jaja.
Acaba Turkler kitaplarini okurken anliyorlar mi . Cunku dili cok renkli ve komlekstir. Zaten ingilizce konustugu gibi kitap yaziyor. Uzun ve karisik cumleler kuruyor.
“Political conformism?” Political conformity is the opposite of what O. Pamuk has inspired within and outside the Turkish community. Critical thinking is what he encourages.
@basicflesh Professor Pamuk speaks rapidly. Better to say nothing than to state such negative comments? Pamuk's voice is like music and what he has to say in this interview is like listening to a sonata. Why can't you hear it? He is obviously genius of a very high order - and you? Your comments: Petty, nonsensical and ridiculous. Grow up; appreciate the gifts of genius that Orhan Pamuk offers his readers. You can in no way approximate him in stature, intelligence or eloquence.
@basicflesh I think it's something to do with the Turkish language, my friend does the same she-he thing. Also, he wouldn't have gotten a Nobel Prize without being a brilliant author. I'm reading My Name Is Red now, or its translation, and I can attest to this. I do agree that his difficulty with English is unfortunate, plus he does seem nervous. Reminds me of when I'm running on coffee.
.Orhan Pamuk is an Internet thief. The internet is a bunch who take notes and use those to their movies, novels. Orhan Pamuk wrote his book on The Museum of Innocence
As a Turkish citizen, I am NOT proud of him. A Turkish writer has to have some words to say about his world. If some writer fulls his wallet seeming lovely to western nations, I would rather think he is a shame ! Lots of things to say about this issue...
To me it is obvious that Pamuk had memorized his answers - at least most of them- prior to the interview. So much for a so-called Turkish intellectual. It speaks volumes that his English is so poor..
Ne yazık ki sizler gibi az okumuş, uluslararası yabancı dillerden bihaber anti-dilbilimciler O. Pamuk'un kullandığı Türkçeyi anlamakta zorluk çekiyor. Zira adam modern batı dilleri seviyesinde ve kriterlerinde düşünüp Türkçeyi o seviyede kullanıyor. Cümleleri baştan sona doğru ve kurallı. Anlayabilmeniz için daha çok okumanız gerek. Zamanla olur, merak etmeyin.
All people should read "Mister Orhan Pamuk" on Reziliazam, but it is Turkish. He has no talent and no capacity for literature, only rich man because of his grandfather, so he can buy all critics.
buzzlikeyear Sikkafalı! Reziliazam'da herifin şeceresini ve yardakçılarını tek tek açıkladım, edebi yetersizliklerini örnekledim. O eser bir başyapıttır. Hayatında Rezilliazam çapında deneme kitabı okuduğunu sanmıyorum, zaten o çapta bir eserin yazıldığına da inanmıyorum.
Pamuk gerçekten çok iyi bir yazar. Bu kadar iyi olmasının arkasında doğuştan gelen bir yetenek değil bilinçli ve disiplinli bir çalışma var. Kara kitap yalnızca Türk edebiyatının değil dünya edebiyatının da en iyi eserlerinden biri. Kıskançlığınızı ve saldırganlığınızı bir yere bırakıp biraz ona yaklaşmaya çalışın. Gurur duyun...
