Thursday, February 21, 2019

ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 33


BY ORHAN PAMUK


A city one has lived in long enough shapes itself into one's own image, acquires the traits of one's personality, the features of one's soul. 

It becomes what Jorge Luis Borges once called "a map of my humiliations and failures" or, as in the case of Pamuk's Istanbul, a map of a man's huzun, both of his intimate miseries and betrayals and of his secret victories.

--The Washington Post

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