Author: Orhan Pamuk

Cites

• Robert Browning (2)
  • IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, The superstitious athest.
    FROM: "Bishop Blougram's Apology", (1855), Poem, UK
• Stendhal (1)
  • IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Politics in a literary work are a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, a crude affair though one impossible to ignore. We are about to speak of very ugly matters.
    FROM: The Charterhouse of Parma (translated by Richard Howard), (1839), Novel, France
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European enlightenment is more important than people.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Joseph Conrad (2)
  • IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The Westerner in me was discomposed.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Novel, England/Poland
• Celal Salik (2)
  • IN: The Museum of Innocence (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget.
    FROM: From notebook, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: A Strangeness in my Mind (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The gulf between the private and public views of our countrymen is evidence of the power of the state.
    FROM: Milliyet, (1990), Fictional, NULL
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1)
  • IN: The Museum of Innocence (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If a man could pass thro' Paradise in a Dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his Soul had really been there, and found that flower in his hand when he awoke -- Aye? and what then?
    FROM: Anima Poetae, (1895), Book, UK
• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1)
  • IN: The Museum of Innocence (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: First, I surveyed the little trinkets on the table, her lotions and her perfumes. I picked them up and examined them one by one. I turned her little watch over in my hand. Then I looked at her wardrobe. All those dresses and accessories piled one on top of the other. These things that every woman used to complete herself - they induced in me a painful and desperate loneliness; I felt myself hers, I longed to be hers.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Turkey
• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: The White Castle (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person -- what else is this but the birth of great passion?
    FROM: In Search of Lost Time, (1913), Novel, France
• William Wordsworth (1)
  • IN: A Strangeness in my Mind (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I had melancholy thoughts... a strangeness in my mind, A feeling that I was not for that hour, Not for that place.
    FROM: The Prelude, (1799), Poem, UK
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1)
  • IN: A Strangeness in my Mind (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, "This is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society.
    FROM: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, (1755), Book, France
• Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: The Red-Haired Woman (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oedipus, the murderer of his father, the husband of his mother, Oedipus, the intepreter of the riddle of the Sphinx! What does the mysterious triad of these deeds of destiny tell us? There is a primitive popular belief, especially in Persia, that a wise Magian can be born only of incest.
    FROM: The Birth of Tragedy, (1872), Book, Germany
• Sophocles (1)
  • IN: The Red-Haired Woman (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oedipus: Where would a trace of this old crime be found?
    FROM: Oedipus the King, (-429), Play, Greece
• Ferdowsi (1)
  • IN: The Red-Haired Woman (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: As a fatherless son, so a sonless father will be embraced by none.
    FROM: Shahnameh, (1010), Poem, Iran
• Stendhal (trans. Richard Howard) (1)
  • IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Politics in a literary work are a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, a crude affair though one impossible to ignore. We are about to speak of very ugly matters.
    FROM: "The Charterhouse of Parma", (1839), Novel, France
• Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European enlightenment is more important than people.
    FROM: notebooks for The Brothers Karamazov, (1971), Book, Russia
• Ahmet Rasim (1)
  • IN: Istanbul (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Turkey
• Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen (1)
  • IN: The Black Book (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ibn' Arabi writes of a friend and dervish saint who, after his soul was elevated to the heavens, arrived on Mount Kaf, the magic mountain that encircles the world; gazing around him, he saw that the mountain itself was encircled by a serpent. Now; it is a well-known fact that no such mountain encircles the world, nor is there a serpent.
    FROM: The Encyclopedia of Islam, (1938), Religious Text, UK
• Koran (3)
  • IN: My Name is Red (1998) Historical Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: To God belongs the East and the West.
    FROM: Koran, "The Cow" 115, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Novalis ( Georg Philipp Friedrich) (1)
  • IN: The New Life (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The others experienced nothing like it even though they heard the same tales.
    FROM: Heinrich von Ofterdingen, (1802), Novel, Germany

Cited by

• Desmond Zhicheng-Mingde Kon (1)
  • IN: Thirty-seven Reasons Red is Rad and what you think (2016) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
    FROM: My Name is Red, (1998), Novel, Turkey
• Karine Tuil (1)
  • IN: The Age of Reinvention (2013) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Love is not that sweet thing everyone talks about. Maybe people are tortured in order to make them say that? Whatever, everyone is lying.
    FROM: NULL, (2011), Conversation, Turkey