Wednesday, April 3, 2019

ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 26


BY ORHAN PAMUK


Pamuk begins his inquiry with an image, a kitschy portrait of a child brought back from Europe that was hung in the house of his aunt. 

"Look! That's you!" the aunt would say to the 5-year-old boy, pointing at the picture. 

For Pamuk, the painted child (who resembled him slightly and wore the same cap he sometimes wore) became his double, another Orhan leading a parallel life in another house in the same city, another self whom he would meet in his dreams with shrieks of horror or with whom he'd bravely lock eyes, each boy trying to stare the other down "in eerie merciless silence."


--The Washington Post

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