Abstract
Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a City is a text that is impossible to define using the already existing vocabulary regarding genre. Both thematically and formally it stands on slippery ground, which is constantly moving, challenging any definition that would confine it within fixed boundaries. With its variety of ingredients that includes autobiographical details from Pamuk’s own childhood memories, photographs from the family album, newspaper articles, paintings, as well as writings on Istanbul by various artists, Istanbul: Memories of a City reflects the different levels, temporal and spatial, through which the narrator has experienced the city. The narrative itself emerges as a reflection of Istanbul with its conflicting and diverse social, cultural, and financial aspects. Its nonlinear structural and thematic composition offers the reader the chance to experience the city in the same way that Pamuk did. The first-person narration and Orhan the narrator stress the autobiographical aspect of the narrative while also raising questions regarding the genre of Istanbul: Memories of a City.KeywordsDistorted ImageFragmented StructureBinary OppositionTurkish RepublicReading MachineThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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