Random notes

For a Turkish reader 'The Museum of Innocence' may mean a great many things.It may be a grand carnival of memories and emotions for him/her.But I found it to be an overwritten novel.Where or in which layer that overwriting has taken place is not easy to point out because the overall structure is that much imposingly built displaying wonderfully great creativity and craftsmanship.Perhaps an ideological reading may liberate the reader from the hypnotic effect of the work so as to enable him/her to have a more meaningful understanding of it.Any how one thing could be said without any doubt:The statement in the blurb that 'The Museum of Innocence is Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement' is not in the immediate vicinity of truth.