Abstract This essay looks back upon Orhan Pamuk’s nonfiction book, Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003), and unpacks its multi-layered representation of the city as landscape. It is here that Pamuk pursues most overtly “the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city” which won him the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. Weaving personal memoir and historical essay into a unique narrative tapestry, Pamuk’s book explores a series of tensions that define the city’s image and identity; insider/outsider and East/West polarities, in particular, are tirelessly deconstructed. The essay examines Pamuk’s poetics and politics of memory in relation to works by other authors, notably Walter Benjamin. In conclusion, the new edition of Istanbul (2015) is discussed against the background of the social and spatial changes that have beset Turkey’s cultural capital in the interim.

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集体忧郁之城：重游帕慕克的伊斯坦布尔

摘要 本文回顾了奥尔罕·帕慕克 (Orhan Pamuk) 的非小说类书籍《伊斯坦布尔：一座城市的记忆》(2003)，并解开了其将城市作为景观的多层次表征。正是在这里，帕慕克最公开地追求“对故乡忧郁灵魂的追寻”，这让他获得了 2006 年的诺贝尔文学奖。帕慕克的书将个人回忆录和历史文章编织成独特的叙事挂毯，探讨了定义城市形象和身份的一系列紧张局势；内部/外部和东西方的两极分化，尤其是不知疲倦地解构。这篇文章考察了帕慕克的诗学和记忆政治与其他作者的作品的关系，特别是沃尔特·本杰明。综上所述，