In his new book, “Istanbul: Memories and the City,” acclaimed novelist Orhan Pamuk, born 102 years after Flaubert’s sojourn in Istanbul, points out that the “reverse came true.” The city into which Pamuk was born in 1952 is “poorer, shabbier, and more isolated than it had ever been before in its two-thousand-year history.”
In 1850, French novelist Gustave Flaubert visited Istanbul: the city’s street life so impressed him he predicted it would become the world’s capital a century hence. Ottoman poets were fond of referring to Istanbul, then known to the world as Constantinople, as the Threshold of Happiness. Istanbul: Memories and the Cit y by Orhan Pamuk.
In his latest book, acclaimed writer Orhan Pamuk has penned an intriguing memoir that focuses on his relationship with Istanbul, the city in which he has always lived.
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