last updated: 30 Oct 2010
I have read the novel, The Museum of Innocence, in Turkish last year. In strictly literary terms, this is his weakest novel. However, a very different sort of project intended here. An actual museum has been built in Istanbul and will be opened soon. This book is a novel-catalogue that actual museum and a great documentary of a particular section of Istanbul’s everyday life. Another intervention to the lives of republican Turkish elites. In the mean time, I have a plan to assign the first 100 pages to my first year students which has a very rich account of approaches to relations, sex and gender roles which are still valid in contemporary Turkish lives.
I was not in love with the literary level of narratives particularly but towards the end I fell in love and in the last pages I remember feeling sad and crying… Thank you Orhan Pamuk. You do enrich our lives.
Book World: Marie Arana reviews ‘The Museum of Innocence,’ by Orhan Pamuk – washingtonpost.com
“Love as a relic, frozen in amber
By Marie Arana
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
By Orhan Pamuk
Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
Knopf. 535 pp. $28.95
One of the trickier subjects in fiction is that of the hapless suitor, besotted with love, locked in a lifelong obsession with a woman he can neither leave nor have. Yet, for all the perils of that soupy scenario, great literature has come of it. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote memorably of just such a man in ‘The Great Gatsby’; William Styron, in ‘Sophie’s Choice’; Gabriel García Márquez, in ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’; and Mario Vargas Llosa, in ‘The Bad Girl.'”…
last update: 23 December 2009
Which Came First — Orhan Pamuk’s Museum or His New Novel? – NYTimes.com
Museum of modern hearts
National
Pamuk’s melodramatic plot of is a reference to the Romeos and Juliets of Turkish cinema’s golden age. Ara Guler / Magnum In Orhan Pamuk’s new novel,
NPR Int: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Museum’ Of Obsession, Innocence
October 27, 2009
Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk describes his latest work as a love story that “doesn’t put love on a pedestal.” Instead, The Museum of Innocence is about one man’s obsession with a beautiful young woman ? and the museum collection he dedicates to the affair that derailed his life.
Set in Istanbul in the 1970s and 1980s, the novel focuses on the subtle ways people communicate love ? including glances, silences and cherished mementos.
Why is Orhan Pamuk hated so much in Turkey?
Today’s Zaman
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The Museum of Innocence and Other Bizarre Art Houses
Flavorwire (blog)
Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, The Museum of Innocence, is now on bookshelves. Not yet available to the public is the corresponding real-world
Pamuk’s Latest, a Leisurely Meditation on Love, Time, Memory, Loss and Obsession
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
By Editor on Nov 7, 2009 in Armenia By Daphne Abeel Don’t be in a hurry to finish Orhan Pamuk’s new novel. It moves slowly and it is meant to be read slowly
‘Museum of Innocence’ an exploration of obsession
Buffalo News
By Michael D. Langan Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk turns anthropologist of experience in his new work, ?The Museum of Innocence.
Orhan Pamuk’s ‘The Museum of Innocence’ a stunningly original work
The Canadian Press
“The Museum of Innocence” Orhan Pamuk (Knopf) Kemal, the lovelorn protagonist of Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, is a sort of Gatsby on the
Review: Orhan Pamuk’s spins a twisted love story
San Francisco Chronicle
Pamuk is a puckish storyteller (look for an inspired by cameo by … Orhan Pamuk) who crafts scenes worthy of the cinema. Vignettes large and small feel
The Museum Of Innocence
A.V. Club
by Todd VanDerWerff November 12, 2009 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk manages a staggering feat of character craft in The Museum Of Innocence, so thoroughly
To solve Turkey’s culture clash, old elite must yield to free speech
Christian Science Monitor
An interview with Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk about his latest book, ‘The Museum of Innocence.’ Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist, won the Nobel
The Musuem of Innocence » The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment …
By James Furbush
?In 1999, writer Orhan Pamuk bought a three story building in Istanbul to interact as a museum with his new novel, ?Museum of Innocence,? a first of its kind of this application. He hired an architect, Ihsan Bilgin, before he started
Nobel-winning author Pamuk to discuss new book | Life | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Orhan Pamuk discusses his new book about love
San Francisco Chronicle
By Orhan Pamuk Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk’s new novel begins in 1975, when Kemal, 30-year-old scion of a wealthy Istanbul family, is engaged to the
Financial Times
The book opens in Istanbul in the summer of 1975, and its narrator is Kemal, the younger son of a wealthy textile manufacturer. Turkey is economically weak
Independent
By Boyd Tonkin Since so much in Orhan Pamuk’s sumptuously rich novel of love and loss in Istanbul turns on obsessive behaviour, let me confess some of my
The Guardian
It’s getting late in the Istanbul of Orhan Pamuk’s new novel (his first since winning the 2006 Nobel prize), late in almost every sense of the word.
New Statesman
By Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk’s new novel is a study of obsession, a theme prone to monotony – indeed, doomed to it, unless the reader is spellbound with the
The Millions
Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence is like an Arabesk song, as written by Marcel Proust. It opens like this: It was the happiest moment of my life,
‘The Museum of Innocence’, Orhan Pamuk’s first novel since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, is set in Istanbul in the time frame spanning 1975 and the present. It is about Kemal, a thirty-year old man trapped in the dilemmas and
Orhan Pamuk?s The Museum of Innocence ? A Book Review Essay
By Patricia H. Kushlis
Orhan Pamuk?s latest novel, The Museum of Innocence, tells the tale of an attractive and wealthy thirty year old man?s obsession with an eighteen year old shop girl who was also his distant cousin. The story is set in 1970s Istanbul, a different and far poorer city than today. In this book, Pamuk sprints, then almost painstakingly strolls, through the separate but interconnected lives of the westernized elite, the idiosyncratic Turkish film world and that of a lower-middle class family all set against an outside world of the country’s ongoing political turbulence and economic stress.
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I read “The Museum of Innocence” by Orhan Pamuk.
I’am working at a series of drawing ispired by the novel.
I’ll very happy to donate the collection to Orhan Pamuk so he can exhibit in his Museum.
Thank you,
Bruno Loeb
You should get in touch with the Istanbul 2010 agency, I guess…