![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pamuk says he had the idea for the museum before he started the novel, which was largely written around and for the objects he gathered. Lest all this sound like an elaborate marketing scheme for the book, let me assure you that, if anything, the opposite is true: the novel is an elaborate ad for the museum. In real life, Pamuk calls himself the “chief promoter” of Kemal’s museum. Pamuk himself makes a cameo in the novel as “Orhan Pamuk,” a novelist interested in telling Kemal’s story. Finished four years after the publication of the novel, this real-life Museum of Innocence houses objects ostensibly belonging to the novel’s narrator, Kemal, who amasses an enormous collection related to his dead beloved and to the era in which he loved her. The ticket is good for one free admission to the eponymous Museum-a real place, housed in a small building in the Çukurcuma district of Istanbul and curated by the author himself. There is a ticket printed in every copy of Orhan Pamuk’s 2008 novel The Museum of Innocence. ![]()
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