A review by kumipaul
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

3.0

Summaries I’ve read tout this as an enduring story of an obsessive love. I saw it more as a one-sided obsession by a privileged alcoholic with serious mental health issues. He calls it love, but it looks more like lust. His business decisions and personal decisions are driven but this obsessive lust, and he suffers their consequences again and again. Kemal claims to understand Fusun’s deepest thoughts which always result in Kemal’s belief that she loves him, or at least will love him again. I would be interested to hear the story from Fusun’s perspective as I believe it would reveal Kemal’s folly. The Museum was such an interesting idea throughout the story, but I can only see it as a creation of a deranged person.