The Museum of Innocence
The Museum of Innocence (Turkish original title Masumiyet Muzesi) is a 2008 published novel by the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. The German translation of Gerhard Meier was published in 2008 by Carl Hanser Verlag. The novel describes a love story that leads to the creation of a museum. In 2012 a museum was opened on the novel in Istanbul.
Content
Kemal, 30 -year-old, well-educated son of a factory, and his girlfriend Sibel plan to become engaged in a short time. Kemal happens to meet the 18 -year-old poor relation Füsun, as if to Sibel buy a handbag. Emotional touched by Füsun he begins to meet with her and help her prepare for the university exam. These meetings, end up as Kemal and Sibel engaged. Kemal Füsun can not reach and therefore is depressed and unhappy. He separates himself from Sibel and spends his days in the apartment where Füsun and he loved each other.
After the death of his father Kemal receives a message from Füsun and learns where she lives. He visited her and sees that she is married. Her husband, Feridun is a filmmaker who loved Füsun since childhood. He needs financial support for his film, and that is also the reason why Füsun Kemal invites. They meet often to go to the movies together, but Füsun behaves formally. Kemal is afraid that he will one day lose Füsun, and secretly collects your personal belongings. Füsuns husband falls in love with the leading lady of his film. The film is successful, but the marriage of Feridun and Füsun goes to pieces.
After the death of Füsuns father Kemal and Füsun live together and are planning to go to Paris with Füsuns mother. In a car accident in Edirne Füsun and Kemal dies is seriously injured. As he gets better, he decides with the objects of Füsun, he has collected all the time to open a museum in that place, used to live on the Füsun and her family. Therefore, it offers the writer Orhan Pamuk to write a catalog for the museum, and Pamuk writes the book.
Relationship between book and Museum
Orhan Pamuk came up with the idea to write a fictional story about the house in which he walked every day, when he brought his young daughter to school. Then he bought this corner house in Çukurcuma (pronounced Tschukurtschuma ) and began to write.
The house was renovated in 2003 by the Turkish architect Ihsan Bilgin, Cem Yücel and a German, with Pamuk friendly team of architects ( Sunder - Plassmann architects ).
In the entrance hall of the museum, visitors are confronted with a wall that is covered with 4213 cigarette butts, the smoked Füsun. The 83 display cases in the museum represent the number of chapters in the book. In the first and second floor everyday objects are like earrings, Men's shoes, lipsticks, handkerchiefs, matchboxes, empty bottles, photographs, advertising posters, glasses, Rakıflaschen, a bird cage to see a wall clock in showcases. At the top of the attic Kemal's room, where he spent the last years of his life, to Pamuk's manuscripts and his designs for the museum.
In an interview with Jörg Steinleitner Orhan Pamuk said: "I am glad that Turkey's German readers and their authors will now pay more attention. It makes me happy that The Museum of Innocence, the novel on which I have worked the last six years, will be released about the same time in Turkey and in Germany. This novel has cost me much trouble. I am pleased that he is now ready. It includes everything I 've learned and seen in my life. With my life I life in Istanbul, in my corner of the world. It revolves around people and roads that are most familiar to me. This idea makes me happy. And that German readers will run down in their imagination these streets, I find exciting. "
Reception
The Turkish pop music singer Nazan Öncel wrote the song Canım benim nasılsın? ( German: How are you, darling? ) after they had read the book and was touched by the love of the characters. The Journal Baska Kültür Sanat Dergisi ( German: The Other Culture & Art) made in its 4th edition, the story of the military coup in Turkey from 1980 to the Ergenekon case on the subject and used the cover of the book as a title page with a little difference: instead Masumiyet Müzesi was the title Mahkumiyet Müzesi ( German: Museum of the judgment). On May 5th and 6th, 2012, the Symposium on The Museum of Innocence was held at Mimar Sinan University.
Demet Haselçin put the novel about a documentary. She called 1999 Orhan Pamuk and began after the talks with the film. Every two to three weeks, they visited the museum, currently under construction, filmed it and kept the copies on to document the changes in the condition of the building. After Pamuk published the book, the director Orhan Pamuk contacted by e -mail. They met together to look at the pictures. After the film was finished, Haselçin led with her colleague Pınar Yakışıklı the protagonists in the film one. Hakan Gerçek synchronized in the role of Kemal the history of the museum. The film also includes interviews with Pamuk, the architects and the team.
Expenditure
- Orhan Pamuk: Masumiyet Müzesi. İletişim Yayınları, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-050-609-3.
- Orhan Pamuk: The Museum of Innocence. Hanser, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23061-3.