Like a novel, he said, “the space of a museum … is a fiction” meant to blur the line between the story of an object and its reality Pamuk’s novel also reveals the act of collecting, said Lowry — even to the point of the pathological, “an irrepressible need to see surrounding objects and store them.” Orhan Pamuk's one of his most beloved books, the Museum of Innocence, will be adapted to the series by the Amazon digital platform. Caught in the relentless cliché . Kemal cherishes every physical relic of Füsun that he can save or steal: a barrette, a salt shaker she once touched, the little china dog that sits on top of her family's television. She drew a parallel to French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), whose work influenced both Dadaists and Surrealists. Behind the counter is a distant cousin – long ago a little girl and now gorgeous and inviting. The Museum of Innocence may be Pamuk's most intimate and nuanced exploration of these stresses yet. I was absorbed and involved from the beginning in the love story and I loved the easy accessible style of writing. The Museum of Innocence (Turkish: Masumiyet Müzesi) is a museum in a 19th-century house in Istanbul (Çukurcuma) created by novelist Orhan Pamuk as a companion to his novel The Museum of Innocence. For she has also rescued her honour by marrying a fat, sweet-tempered boy from her old neighbourhood, and for almost 350 pages Kemal will barely be allowed to do so much as to touch her arm. It is an old city, so old that in 1975, when this stately and intricate novel begins, its principal narrator, Kemal Basmací, still drives a 1956 Chevrolet. Not dead, far from that, but the hours are small and time itself seems to be running down, as though the whole city were a memorial to its own better days. Most of Kemal's friends are names rather than fully realised characters, and however vivid his desire for Füsun, she herself remains a bit shadowy. All in all I found it the most affecting story since reading Mishima's Spring Snow as a teenager over forty years ago. He will eat her mother's excellent food and drink endless glasses of rakí with her father as they watch the country's single television channel. They are driven by the same “dark compulsions” of collecting, but “these compulsions are an embarrassment,” said Pamuk. Not dead, far from that, but the hours are small and time itself seems to be running down, as though the whole city were a memorial to its own better days. For all his portable “museums” in handsome suitcases, Duchamp chose to create a last work that could never be moved. Under Ataturk, maybe? . The Museum of Innocence is a reminder that collecting could be understood as a spectrum. Turkey's struggle with modernity is brilliantly evoked in Orhan Pamuk's story of a young man's pursuit of his first true love, says Michael Gorra, Lovers looking out to the Bosphorus, Istanbul. 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