From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red-an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels.
In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller's famous distinction between "naive" writers-those who write spontaneously-and "sentimental" writers-those who are reflective and aware-Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey and the beloved novels of his youth to describe the singular experience of reading. Unique, nuanced, and passionate, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red-an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels.
In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller's famous distinction between "naive" writers-those who write spontaneously-and "sentimental" writers-those who are reflective and aware-Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey and the beloved novels of his youth to describe the singular experience of reading. Unique, nuanced, and passionate, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.
Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He lives in Istanbul.
“Pamuk’s nonfiction voice matches the narrating voice of his
novels—grave, thoughtful, wry.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A full-fledged theory of the novel. . . . His explorations of time
and plot, words and objects, and the convolutions of the reader’s
mind as he seeks the center of the novel are incomparable.”
—Huffington Post, One of the Ten Best Books of 2010
“Anyone who has read Pamuk’s exquisite fiction will be interested
in these essays on reading and the art of the novel.” —Plain
Dealer
“Fascinating. . . . Every novelist will want to read this, and will
learn from a master.” —The Telegraph (UK)
“A pleasure to read. . . . Quite an interesting theoretical map,
illuminating, for instance, the difference between literary and
genre fiction, or the relationship between art and reality.” —The
National
“Engaging. . . . Charming.” —The Guardian (UK)
“Full of literary examples and written with a real love for the
power of books, The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist will take
its place with other classics like E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the
Novel, John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction and James Wood’s How
Fiction Works.” —Business-Standard
“A striking interpretation of what goes on in the novelist’s mind.
. . . Pamuk’s great insight is that novels don’t necessarily have a
single center—the center depends on the point of view of the
character, and more importantly, the shifting point of view of the
reader.” —The American Statesman
“Pamuk’s book is a reminder that, without this almost metaphysical
faith, great fiction can’t be truly appreciated or written.”
—Bookforum
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