The Museum of Innocence

The new novel by Orhan Pamuk(Snow and My Name is Red fame) is out and the reviews all around the world suggesting that it will be the best till date by Orhan Pamuk,the man who has won 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Read what Orhan Pamuk said about it,”In The Museum of Innocence I am looking at the spirit of the nation this time through love. Maybe it’s not the whole nation but it’s my part of the world, the whole non-western world where all these issues of love in a society where sex outside of marriage is problematical, and there is the taboo of virginity.”

This is the story of love in repressed societies where lovers cannot easily negotiate their love. This has qualities of Romeo and Juliet in a post-colonial non-western bourgeois society, and in the wake of the tradition and the aspirations of modernity, posing as more westernised than they really are and how to come to terms with the legacy of culture and religion.

Kemal’s attention to Fusun is in that sense very typical of that lover’s attention to the beloved where there is very little real possibility for coming eye to eye, although Kemal sees Fusun almost every night. Yet there is no communication because they are watching TV together and they are never left alone. The only moments alone are when they are looking at Fusun’s paintings, so instead of judging the culture by saying well, ‘unfortunately, it’s such a repressed society where lovers cannot meet and talk,’ which is the truth, I want to understand the language that they develop.”

Extracted from a interview to The Hindu.

So this book is dedicated to all the lovers.Keep spreading love and enjoy the sign language of love.