Turkish writer Pamuk cancels show in Frankfurt
Turkish novellist Orhan Pamuk (Photograph: Eamonn McCabe)
The Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk has canceled an exhibition of his “Museum of Innocence” at Frankfurt’s Kunsthalle Schirn. As the Frankfurter Rundschau’s Claus-Jürgen Göpfert reports, the exhibition was due to open on October 14, just in time for the city’s renowned international book fair, where Turkey is this year’s special guest. At the Schirn exhibition, the novel was to function as the exhibition catalogue; Pamuk will still read excerpts from the book at the fair.
The “Museum of Innocence” is a collection of everyday objects and curiosities that Pamuk has amassed over the years. Moreover, it’s also the title of the Turkish writer’s latest novel, which places the collection at the center of a love story that takes place in Istanbul in the 1970s and ’80s. According to Bloomberg, Pamuk was inspired by the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris, based in the 19th-century painter’s home. Pamuk is building the museum in Cihangir, an upscale neighborhood in central Istanbul.
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