The love story of Kemal and Fusun had made a great impression on me. I've read this book without a moment's respite. I want to believe that this museum really exists and I can visit it.
Continues... 03 Jan 2010, David Mantashyan
The book was too long, too detailed, too repetitive. After a few dozen pages on the nature of obsession one gets the picture and doesn't need to have it hammered over and over. By the end, when he was listing every off-beat museum in the world, I was only skimming in order to say that I had not quit altogether.
Link 01 Jan 2010, Joel Sanders
I think that a well turned phrase and lyrical prose are the mark of a great writer and I expected as much from a Nobel Prize Laureate. The writing is choppy and the sentence construction is awkward. Of course, that may partially be due to the translation, I don't know.
Continues... 30 Dec 2009, Mahoney
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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