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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
فيديو المراجعة:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/a5yyRq1rgg8?start=391
In the depth of the Turkish society, Orhan took us.
It's a love story.. well, not precisely.. It's a story about love..especially loving Istanbul.
Kemal bey the thirty-something year old man fell in love with an eighteen year old girl "Füsun" and was confused about giving up on everything he has that seems like a perfect life and go after his love or not.
However, this story is a background to Orhan's perfect narration of the aristocratic class of Istanbul after the calling off of the Ottoman empire and the rise of capitalism and secular appeals which are described as "westernization" of Turkey. So, basically Orhan is telling us historic facts and events in form of a novel.
Don't hang on the love story and enjoy the description of the society, because I did at the first few chapters. I complained it was going on slowly with the incidents of the love story but after that, I realized the beauty of the novel regardless of Kemal bey agony. Orhan is telling the smallest detail in everything and everyone in this novel, it can be irritating and also amusing.
It's important to notice that Kemal bey portrayed the Turk's confused mind and Füsun represented the modern Turkey that was captured into the traditional surrounding mindsets.
The obsessive hoarding in the novel led to opening the Museum of Innocence in Turkey, and I visited it myself last September, it was really beautiful and on each object they wrote down the phrase that was mentioned in the novel about it.
Bring your copy if you are going to visit Istanbul because you will be guaranteed a free entrance to the museum. And, I found out that there are museums around the world that is keen on representing the normal objects in the country houses in them as was mentioned in this novel.
Back to the novel, I liked the description of Time as he said it and so many other things that I quoted. The story is about Istanbul, love, friendship, family and how was the receiving of religion back then in Turkey.
I loved it and the ending was good.
I highly recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/a5yyRq1rgg8?start=391
In the depth of the Turkish society, Orhan took us.
It's a love story.. well, not precisely.. It's a story about love..especially loving Istanbul.
Kemal bey the thirty-something year old man fell in love with an eighteen year old girl "Füsun" and was confused about giving up on everything he has that seems like a perfect life and go after his love or not.
However, this story is a background to Orhan's perfect narration of the aristocratic class of Istanbul after the calling off of the Ottoman empire and the rise of capitalism and secular appeals which are described as "westernization" of Turkey. So, basically Orhan is telling us historic facts and events in form of a novel.
Don't hang on the love story and enjoy the description of the society, because I did at the first few chapters. I complained it was going on slowly with the incidents of the love story but after that, I realized the beauty of the novel regardless of Kemal bey agony. Orhan is telling the smallest detail in everything and everyone in this novel, it can be irritating and also amusing.
It's important to notice that Kemal bey portrayed the Turk's confused mind and Füsun represented the modern Turkey that was captured into the traditional surrounding mindsets.
The obsessive hoarding in the novel led to opening the Museum of Innocence in Turkey, and I visited it myself last September, it was really beautiful and on each object they wrote down the phrase that was mentioned in the novel about it.
Bring your copy if you are going to visit Istanbul because you will be guaranteed a free entrance to the museum. And, I found out that there are museums around the world that is keen on representing the normal objects in the country houses in them as was mentioned in this novel.
Back to the novel, I liked the description of Time as he said it and so many other things that I quoted. The story is about Istanbul, love, friendship, family and how was the receiving of religion back then in Turkey.
I loved it and the ending was good.
I highly recommend it.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Pwerp https://recenseernogeenkeer.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/the-museum-of-innocence/
This book was certainly intriguing in its premise, but read like a mix between Anna Karenina and Lolita in that the girl was legal but there was less about agriculture (in case you couldn't tell, I abhor both of those books, which I know is not necessarily popular opinion). Something kept me coming back to this one (besides the fact that I'm reading it for a class) and it was maybe worth sticking out for 500+ pages. Maybe. It is quite interesting to meditate on collecting as love. I just wish it weren't so goddamn depressing (which is the point) and not told so much from the male-only perspective (which is addressed).
2.5/5
I was gifted this book before my trip to Istanbul, but did not have the chance to read it before my trip. I visited the Museum of Innocence and was impressed by the amount of objects and I have to say, the objects conveyed certain emotions. I enjoyed a quote about Time, stating that we must treasure our time for its deepest moments. For Kemal, that was spending 8 years at his beloved Füsun's dinner table.
I finally got to read the book and I enjoyed the passages about Istanbul, the culture, the influence of the West, and the tidbits of history. Reading about the city and certain neighborhoods made me relive my trip to Istanbul, it made me remember all the small but precious moments. As Pamuk wrote about certain streets in Beyoglu I also imagined myself walking there again.
On one side, the story kept piquing my interest and on the other side I skipped or skimmed entire passages. Some chapters are very long-winded and not interesting. The writing is too detailed. For the parts that were interesting, I did enjoy the writing. I read a Dutch translation of the book and I think it was translated well.
I think someone who hasn't visited Istanbul would not get a lot of enjoyment out of this book. It's too longwinded, it did not satisfy me, and I find that Kemal was a sad man, to say the least.
I was gifted this book before my trip to Istanbul, but did not have the chance to read it before my trip. I visited the Museum of Innocence and was impressed by the amount of objects and I have to say, the objects conveyed certain emotions. I enjoyed a quote about Time, stating that we must treasure our time for its deepest moments. For Kemal, that was spending 8 years at his beloved Füsun's dinner table.
I finally got to read the book and I enjoyed the passages about Istanbul, the culture, the influence of the West, and the tidbits of history. Reading about the city and certain neighborhoods made me relive my trip to Istanbul, it made me remember all the small but precious moments. As Pamuk wrote about certain streets in Beyoglu I also imagined myself walking there again.
On one side, the story kept piquing my interest and on the other side I skipped or skimmed entire passages. Some chapters are very long-winded and not interesting. The writing is too detailed. For the parts that were interesting, I did enjoy the writing. I read a Dutch translation of the book and I think it was translated well.
I think someone who hasn't visited Istanbul would not get a lot of enjoyment out of this book. It's too longwinded, it did not satisfy me, and I find that Kemal was a sad man, to say the least.