And when a final chance at happiness is ripped away, all that remains to him is his museum, this map of a society's rituals and mores, and of one man's broken heart.Ī stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and the strange allure of collecting, this is Orhan Pamuk's greatest achievement. Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence - in pictures As the Nobel laureate opens a museum in Istanbul displaying the objects from which his latest novel, The Museum of Innocence, is. His hoard will make him famous – and a laughingstock – in Istanbul society.
From his visits Kemal will take away nothing but odd personal effects, possessions he will collect and cherish, in the private religion his adoration becomes. But Kemal cannot forget her: he breaks up with his fiancée to pursue Füsun, only to lose her to another man.įor nine years Kemal finds excuses to visit Füsun's impoverished, conservative marital household, playing the kindly cousin, hoping to lure her back. Type history Information arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2009, pp. Their incandescent liaison will flicker and die when Füsun learns of Kemal's engagement. The Museum of Innocence is the most recent novel by Pamuk, Turkish novelist and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature (its Turkish title is Masumiyet Müzesi, 2008) 1. Kemal, thirty, from an upperclass family, is engaged to a girl of like background when by chance he encounters a long-lost relation: Füsun is a shopgirl, an eighteen-year-old beauty who stirs all the passion denied him in a society where sex outside marriage is taboo.
From the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize. The idea for the Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence in Istanbul was based on his novel of the same name, and was conceived at the same time as the idea for the book.
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