I am very disappointed in Museum of Innocence. I think this was a very sloppy work of Orhan Pamuk and probably the worst of his list of books. Although I read in Turkish I had exactly the same experince as one of the reviews say above on sentence structure. It is not the translation.
Link 25 Jan 2010, Esra
I can't leave it unfinished, so sometimes instead of paging one page I am going for a few, repeat, repeat and repeat. May be he wants to show how our lives is repetitive but after a repetitive day of our lives, this book is too thick to go through. This was the first book that I read from him, I am going to read another book from him too. If it didn't work for me... it didn't. He has more than enough admirors.
Link 22 Jan 2010, Loosineh Zakarian
It is a problematic novel because the reader begins to ask herself/himself what innocence means while reading the book. Do Kemal's gatherings from Fusun's house actually symbolize innocence or their relationship in mercy apartment? It is questionable and at the same time ironic.
Continues... 12 Jan 2010, Fatma Çetin
When I finished the pivotal chapter, The Engagement Party, I flung the book down in disgust and vowed to return it to the library immediately.
Then, to my horror and shame, I realized that not reading the book was causing me even more pain than reading the book. My "manly immorality" had dissolved into a mysterious numbness.
Continues... 20 Feb 2010, Kevin Burke
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You may start with the Wikipedia article about Orhan Pamuk to get more information on the writer of this book.
Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. You may read his Nobel Lecture: My Father's Suitcase
The official site of the writer is located at www.orhanpamuk.net
The official site of “The Museum of Innocence” is located at www.masumiyetmuzesi.com (in Turkish).
Pamuk describes the relation between the novel and the museum as “The museum is not an illustration of the novel and the novel is not an explanation of the museum. They are two representations of one single story perhaps.” in an interview with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Pamuk is writing a series of articles, discussing the literary, philosophical and personal backgrounds of the novel and his thoughts on other great novels about love. These articles will also be linked here.
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