![]() ![]() In the novel, Kemal reacts to the death of Füsun, his beloved, by obsessively collecting objects that remind him of her and of their days of love: jewelry, silverware, ticket stubs, movie posters, a yellow jug. ![]() Sackler Museum, in front of a packed house. ![]() He joined curatory and literary experts in “With the Museum in Mind,” a discussion at the Arthur M. It is also “a discourse on museums and collecting,” said Pamuk. “The boy meets the girl - something, something,” he summed up jokingly.īut that “something, something” is more than love, tragedy, and death. 14), is in some ways just a “melodrama” of the kind found widely in Turkish literature and cinema. What follows Kemal’s epiphany of love, said Pamuk during a panel this week (Oct. Pamuk, a celebrant of his native Istanbul, is this year’s Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard The scene is from “The Museum of Innocence,” a 2008 novel by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that is just being published in English. “I felt my heart rise into my throat,” Kemal remembers, “with the force of an immense wave about to crash against the shore.” Behind the counter is a distant cousin – long ago a little girl and now gorgeous and inviting. It is 1975, and a young Istanbul businessman, prosperous and settled, walks into a boutique to buy his fiancée a purse. ![]()
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