In part, that’s because of his work’s accessibility and his willingness to adapt conventionally popular genres, like historical and detective stories, into multilayered, character-driven novels. He is that rare thing, a creator of sophisticated, intensely literary fiction, who is also his country’s bestselling writer. Pamuk, who has taught comparative literature at Columbia, became the first Turk to win a Nobel when he was awarded the 2006 literature prize. When the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk was invited to give the annual Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard this fall, he chose as his title “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist.” Kemal, the protagonist and first-person narrator of Pamuk’s latest, “The Museum of Innocence” may be naive and sentimental - as well as willful and self-absorbed - but the author of this mesmerizing, brilliantly realized new novel is anything but.
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