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Il Museo Dell'innocenza (2008)

by Orhan Pamuk(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8866213063 (ISBN13: 9788866213062)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: A tale of obsession of a rich Istanbul businessman who is engaged to be married but falls in love with a teenage distant relation of his. He goes to ridiculous, comical lengths to try to get the girl of his desire.He slumps into a profound uselessness; his business suffers, his relations with his family and friends are impaired, his whole life seems to have acquired a suffocating stillness, but he is focused on one thing: to make himself available to his beloved, to make himself seen and heard, to visit her house on a regular basis under a pretext of visiting poor relatives.This routine continues for eight years during which the story is obsessively and nauseatingly improvised, through all the little details and happenings that seemed to change things for him, to give him ... morea ray of hope, but nothing definite happens till very late, and when it does finally happen, when the girl accedes to his unrelenting pursuit, there occurs a tragic events which makes everything topsy-turvy.The novel depicts the lifestyle of upper class Istanbulites of the 1970s and 1980s, a period of immense social and political change in the life of modern Turkey. In a sense, it’s a snapshot of Istanbul’s upper class who are negotiating their modern paradoxes of identity and destiny. The perennial question sits at the heart of their conundrum: are they European or not? Should they do and behave like European to modernise themselves? Or uphold their traditions and keep their customs and still be counted modern and enlightened?I spent much longer reading the book than I’d have; I lost interest about mid way. It’s not as good as his previous novel. The start is typical Pamuk, which is to say it’s fast, intense, introduces conflict right from the start, and completely pulls you into the story. But then it stalls in the middle, completely loses its movement and interest factor with endless and overdone improvisation, till things begin to happen by the end of the book when it’s too little too late to salvage the novel for the stellar reputation his previous novels, (My Name is Red, Snow), enjoy.
review 2: güzel bir aşk hikayesinin ustaca bir kurguyla sunulduğu güzel bir kitap. saplantılı bir aşkın daha doğrusu bir adamın öyküsü. ama gerek anlatım olarak gerekse de kurgu olarak hoş olmuş. her ne kadar gereğinden uzun olsa da sıkılmadan ve takılmadan bitirdiğim bir kitap. bu da akıcı üslubun etkisi olsa gerek. belki de uzun olması acı çeken kemal'in acısının yavaş yavaş içimizde büyümesine, sayfaları çevirdikçe hızla hikayenin içine dahil olmamızı sağlamış olabilir.zaman zaman tekrar düşen yerler rahatsız edici boyuta ulaşsa da genel anlamda akıcı ve güzeldi. ama bir bölümde o kadar çok ıhlamur kokusu ifadesi geçti ki bu tekrarlar gecenin bir yarısı markete gidip ıhlamur alacak kadar rahatsız etti beni. bunun sebebi o kokuyu o anda hatırlamamış oluşum olabilir. romanda geçen aşk hikayesinin kendisi dışında hep merak ettiğim eski istanbul'u o kadar güzel anlatmış ki yazar, hikaye ile birlikte eski istanbul'u da yaşadım. bunlara ek olarak halen tam olarak bir yere konumlandıramadığımız bazı toplumsal yargıların hayatımızda ne denli yer ettiğini göstermesi, sosyete ve sinema dünyasının da güzel bir şekilde hikayenin içinde verilmesi gibi nedenlerle gayet zengin bir roman olmuş. less

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