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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
جالب بود. اولین مواجهه با پاموک بود برای من. البته احساس میکنم نسخه ای که داشتم جدای از ترجمه بد و ضعیف، گرفتار سانسور هم شده بود. شاید باید پاموک را به زبان اصلی ترکی بخوانم.
Stopping at 75% because it's just not worth finishing. I'm so disappointed because I loved The Color Red by this same author
Others wrote (and this time I agree):
"Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened."
It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find water in a barren land. This is the tale of their struggle, but it is also a deeper investigation - through mesmerising stories and images - into Pamuk's prevailing themes: fathers and sons, the state and individual freedom, reading and seeing.
It is also a richly literary work: The Red-Haired Woman borrows from the tradition of the French conte philosophique and asks probing questions of ethics and of the role of art in our lives. It is both a short, realist text investigating a murder which took place thirty years ago near Istanbul - and a fictional inquiry into the literary foundations of civilizations, comparing two fundamental myths of the West and the East respectively: Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (a story of patricide) and Ferdowsi's tale of Rostam and Sohrab (a story of filicide).
The Red-Haired Woman is a masterful and mesmerising work which further confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of our greatest novelists.
"Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened."
It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find water in a barren land. This is the tale of their struggle, but it is also a deeper investigation - through mesmerising stories and images - into Pamuk's prevailing themes: fathers and sons, the state and individual freedom, reading and seeing.
It is also a richly literary work: The Red-Haired Woman borrows from the tradition of the French conte philosophique and asks probing questions of ethics and of the role of art in our lives. It is both a short, realist text investigating a murder which took place thirty years ago near Istanbul - and a fictional inquiry into the literary foundations of civilizations, comparing two fundamental myths of the West and the East respectively: Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (a story of patricide) and Ferdowsi's tale of Rostam and Sohrab (a story of filicide).
The Red-Haired Woman is a masterful and mesmerising work which further confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of our greatest novelists.
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Simple story - in fact, a modern adaptation of a classic - or let's say two. Where issues of father/son converge.
It's one of those where you hear the voice of the main character for so long, it becomes increasingly frustrating when the climax occurs and the main character just fumbles it all up, just turning it into another self-fulfilling prophecy.
Character development is okay, you can feel quite a few characters, but they're all feeling pretty inconsequential about the grand scheme of things - and even their own stories. So essentially you just see them play their parts. The rich people don't seem to realise how their actions affect the wider world - and the activists don't seem to really do much either.
Really not that much to take away.
It's one of those where you hear the voice of the main character for so long, it becomes increasingly frustrating when the climax occurs and the main character just fumbles it all up, just turning it into another self-fulfilling prophecy.
Character development is okay, you can feel quite a few characters, but they're all feeling pretty inconsequential about the grand scheme of things - and even their own stories. So essentially you just see them play their parts. The rich people don't seem to realise how their actions affect the wider world - and the activists don't seem to really do much either.
Really not that much to take away.
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reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes