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on 2006-10-14 by tonycurzonprice

I am interested in this emotion: "huzun, a ... state of feeling, between anguish and resignation" Under resignation, a threat is so great that it is pointless to fight or to avoid; there is just dread. Under anguish, you fear and anticipate the impact of the threat. Both require a threat. Where does that come from in Pamuk?

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To do this he makes much of hüzün , a word broadly translated as melancholia. For Pamuk this state of feeling, between anguish and resignation, inhabits the city and its inhabitants, including himself.

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on 2006-10-14 by tonycurzonprice

I am interested in this emotion: "h?z?n, a ... state of feeling, between anguish and resignation" Under resignation, a threat is so great that it is pointless to fight or to avoid; there is just dread. Under anguish, you fear and anticipate the impact of the threat. Both require a threat. Where does that come from in Pamuk?

on 2006-10-14 by tonycurzonprice

maybe it is the threat of decline ... the very evocative piece in the FT referenced here suggests the melancholy of realising the difficulty of retrieving ancient significance. There is a slight sense of Borges' Buenos Aires in that snippet from the FT.

m. She did not have the intellectual authority, the network of interests or the external power to "define" Flaubert, who ran away rather than expose himself before Turkish eyes. But the story tells a lot about what Pa

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