Nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk is opening a museum in conjunction with the release of his new novel, “Museum of Innocence.” Admission to the museum is free with a ticket printed in the book.
Perhaps this can be my excuse to visit Istanbul? I have a free ticket to a museum of 83 objects symbolizing each chapter of a Nobel winning novelist’s latest work? The objects themselves are lovely but I’m not quite sure that I’ll be making the trip for them.
And like [his character] Kemal, Pamuk will also open a museum of objects, filled with 83 displays for each of the 83 chapters of the novel. “As I wrote this novel over the past 10 years,” Pamuk told me, “I encountered everyday objects that would make their way into the story. At other times, the story would demand an object to keep it moving, so I would bring one in. When I am stuck, I cast about looking for ideas from objects around me. My perceptions, or you can say my tentacles, are wide open to everything in shop windows, in friends’ homes, in flea markets and antique shops and so on. This is how the Museum of Innocence came about.”
Read the entire article at the New York Times here.
