Michael Frank Istanbul from the inside out: Orhan Pamuk Istanbul: Memories and the City Alfred A. Knopf: NY, 2005, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 7 August 2005, R8, Forward and Back
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"In Istanbul, [Pamuk] refers to an essay by critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin on writers' descriptions of great cities . . .
"[Pamuk] pays respect to Istanbul's writers, reserving special affection for . . . Resat Ekrem Koçu, whose 12 (incomplete) volumes of the Istanbul Encyclopedia Pamuk says "rightly and proudly" claimed to be the world's first encyclopedia about a single city . . ." [I would guess that if the claim were to be the only encyclopedia about a single city, one might make a list.]
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