The culmination of decades of omnivorous collecting, Pamuk writes about things that matter deeply to him: the psychology of the collector, the proper role of the museum, the photography of old Istanbul, and the customs and traditions of his beloved city.
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The culmination of decades of omnivorous collecting, Pamuk writes about things that matter deeply to him: the psychology of the collector, the proper role of the museum, the photography of old Istanbul, and the customs and traditions of his beloved city.
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VG+/VG+ A dark red softcover book with a color illustrated dust jacket. The title is printed in black on a beige rectangle on the softcover; on the dust jacket, the title is printed in white down a red spine. The free and pasted end pages are illustrated. Pages: (8), 9-263, (1). Profusely illustrated with majority color photographs. "The culmination of decades of omnivorous collecting, Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence in Istanbul uses his novel of lost love, The Museum of Innocence, as a departure point to explore the city of his youth. In The Innocence of Objects, Pamuk's catalog of this remarkable museum, he writes about things that matter deeply to him: the psychology of the collector, the proper role of the museum, the photography of old Istanbul, and, of course, the customs and traditions of his beloved city." Contents are as follows: The Catalogue--1. The Happiest Moment of My Life--2. The Sanzelize Boutique--3. Distant Relations--4. Love at the Office--5. Fuaye--6. Fusun's Tears--7. The Merhamet Apartments--8. Turkey's First Fruit Soda--9. F--10. City Lights and Happiness--11. The Feast of the Sacrifice--12. Kissing on the Lips--13. Love, Courage, Modernity--14. Istanbul's Streets, Bridges, Hills, and Squares--15. A Few Unpalatable Anthropological Truths--16. Jealousy--17. My Whole Life Depends on You Now--18. Belkis's Story--19. At the Funeral--20. Fusun's Two Conditions--21. My Father's Story: Pearl Earrings--22. The Hand of Rahmi Efendi--23. Silence--24. The Engagement Party--25. The Agony of Waiting--26. An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains--27. Don't Lean Back That Way, You Might Fall--28. The Consolation of Objects--29. By Now There Was Hardly a Moment When I Wasn't Thinking About Her--30. Fusun Doesn't Live Here Anymore--31. The Streets That Reminded Me of Her--32. The Shadows and Ghosts I Mistook for Fusun--33. Vulgar Distractions--34. Like a Dog in Outer Space--35. The First Seeds of My Collection--36. To Entertain a Small Hope That Might Allay My Heartache--37. The Empty House--38. The End-of-Summer Party--39. Confession--40. The Consolations of Life in a Yali--41. Swimming on My Back--42. The Melancholy of Autumn--43. Cold and Lonely November Days--44. Fatih Hotel--45. A Holiday on Uludag--46. Is It Normal to Leave Your Fiancee in the Lurch? --47. My Father's Death--48. The Most Important Thing in Life Is to Be Happy--49. I Was Going to Ask Her to Marry Me--51. Happiness Means Being Close to the One You Love, That's All--52. A Film About Life and Agony Should Be Sincere--53. An Indignant and Broken Heart Is of No Use to Anyone--54. Time--55. Come Again Tomorrow, and We Can Sit Together Again--56. Lemon Films Inc. --57. On Being Unable to Stand Up and Leave--58. Tombala--59. Getting Past the Censors--60. Evenings on the Bosphorus, at the Huzur Restaurant--63. The Gossip Column--64. The Fire on the Bosphorus--65. The Dogs--66. What Is This? --67. Cologne--68. 4, 213 Cigarette Stubs--69. Sometimes--70. Broken Lives--71. You Hardly Ever Come Here Anymore, Kemal Bey--72. Life, Too, Is Just Like Love...--73. Fusun's Driving License--74. Tar1k Bey--The Penthouse--Architecture: From House to Museum--Acknowledgments and Credits.
Add this copy of The Innocence of Objects to cart. $72.12, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Abrams Books.
