5/10/2023 0 Comments The museum of innocence museumIt was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. Pamuk says he's always been attracted to small museums and the "melancholy" that seems to permeate them. The idea for the museum came, in part, from the author's visits to small collections around the world. And, in an unusual instance of literature melding into real life, he plans to display those objects in an actual "Museum of Innocence," which he hopes to open in Istanbul in July 2010. Pamuk began collecting the objects that his protagonist Kemal would save before he even began writing the novel. "This is love in a semirepressed society, where communication between men and women is limited, where sex outside of marriage - especially before marriage - is also a taboo," Pamuk tells Robert Siegel. Set in Istanbul in the 1970s and 1980s, the novel focuses on the subtle ways people communicate love - including glances, silences and cherished mementos. 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. By Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely
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