O Castelo Branco (Brochura)
Format: Brochura
ISBN:
9788535911176 (8535911170)
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Companhia das Letras
Pages no: 200
Edition language: Portuguese
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Turkish,
Turkish Literature
Of course he was conceited: having devoured most of what had been accomplished before his time, he turned up his nose at it all; he had no doubt he'd do better; he had no equal; he knew he was more intelligent and creative than anyone else. In short, he was an average youth. [p6]
Orhan Pamuk has won the Nobel Prize for literature and is supposed to be the premier man of letters in contemporary Turkey. However, I noted that more than one person on my friends' list on Goodreads was less than enthused with his books. Thus, instead of reading his more famous My Name is Red or Sn...
at the beginning I really liked it but after about halfway through it got unbearable although I really tried to go forward. I do not like Hoja anymore at all. I am done with him and the direction of the book goes ... couldnt do it :(
The grass is always greener. Maybe that isn't the central point of The White Castle (Honestly, how many good books actually have one central point?), but it was the one that stuck with me the most.Pamuk, in general, was suggested to me, so I went onto the Brooklyn Library's website and picked one of...
Night-time read.One should be more careful what one puts on the bedside table. This may of been a better read if I had placed it on the morning chair as I may have got more out of it. As it was, we have a master, who just happens to be paranoid schizophrenic and the mirror image of the Italian he re...
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