This study aims to explore the concept of archival quality in Orhan Pamuk’s eighth novel The Museum of Innocence (2008) and the namesake museum opened in Istanbul (2012) as the first museum based on a novel. The study mainly aims to demonstrate the preserving and archiving function of the textual and museal narrative as a resistance against the anxiety of loss. After a brief look at the background of Turkish novel and Pamuk’s novels, the subject matter is discussed through a close look at the novel and the museum from thematic and structural aspects. The use of objects, which is the most important feature of the project, is analysed as the central issue both in relation with important patterns such as loss, memory, and nostalgia and the concept of materiality and re-contextualization of objects through narration and exhibition. In addition, the study also deals with reality effect created through objects and the constant interplay between reality and fiction, which gains a new dimension through the museum which is a real place based on a fictional work. Regarding the archival quality of novels and museums, it is concluded that the novel-museum project can be read as a narrative of preservation which chronicles the mundane and humane details about a love story, a city, an epoch, a culture, a society and its patterns.
THE CONCEPT OF ARCHIVAL QUALITY IN ORHAN PAMUK'S THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
Ozutemiz, Pinar
2016
Abstract
This study aims to explore the concept of archival quality in Orhan Pamuk’s eighth novel The Museum of Innocence (2008) and the namesake museum opened in Istanbul (2012) as the first museum based on a novel. The study mainly aims to demonstrate the preserving and archiving function of the textual and museal narrative as a resistance against the anxiety of loss. After a brief look at the background of Turkish novel and Pamuk’s novels, the subject matter is discussed through a close look at the novel and the museum from thematic and structural aspects. The use of objects, which is the most important feature of the project, is analysed as the central issue both in relation with important patterns such as loss, memory, and nostalgia and the concept of materiality and re-contextualization of objects through narration and exhibition. In addition, the study also deals with reality effect created through objects and the constant interplay between reality and fiction, which gains a new dimension through the museum which is a real place based on a fictional work. Regarding the archival quality of novels and museums, it is concluded that the novel-museum project can be read as a narrative of preservation which chronicles the mundane and humane details about a love story, a city, an epoch, a culture, a society and its patterns.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/181281
URN:NBN:IT:UNIVR-181281