Abstract

This article explores a distinctive mode of narrative, “the novel as museum,” as represented in Orhan Pamuk's 2008 novel. Framed via Walter Benjamin's ideas on collecting and urban representation and Pamuk's 2009 Norton Lectures on The Naïve and Sentimental Novelist, the article traces a link between Pamuk's fictional museum and its physical counterpart in Istanbul and talks about memories inscribed in everyday objects and urban modernity hidden behind the story.

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