Lovesickness

Istanbul, Beyoglu district, 1970 When his fiancée and wife Sibel soon noticed a purse to her liking in a store, Kemal, the son of wealthy merchants, is taking notice, but at the time of purchase, he falls lovers saleswoman, Füsun, who happens to be his distant cousin. Begins a double life for Kemal between fascinating and excessive Füsun and wise and amazing Sibel. Kemal will eventually be abandoned by Sibel but could not regain Füsun.
Strange, strange novel that 'innocence Museum', further study of passion that is striking for his funeral and memorial appearance. Happy days of passion Kemal will hardly exceed a few months, but throughout his life, he will go after the lost time of his beautiful idyll: First, become encrusted in everyday Füsun, married after their break an aspiring filmmaker, then creating a museum as a tribute to the beloved wife as much as his passion finally entrusting to author Orhan Pamuk care of their bedtime story on paper. Hard not to think of Nerval, Flaubert and Proust, who are abundantly cited by Pamuk in this intimate odyssey of passion. As his models, Pamuk almost unknown to the outside world and that hardly evokes internal strife in Turkey of the times (street fights between extremist right and left military coup). Instead, he gives us many developments (rather repetitive, I found) on the virginity of young girls and behavioral differences between Europeans and Orientals in this area - differences that remain strong even in the privileged environment, and non-practicing westernized which is that of his heroes.
The aspect that touched me the most - and brutally underlines the conclusion that Pamuk, the author-actor events, takes over at the expense of its sponsor Kemal - takes narcissism and myopia of the hero - and Lover in general. Kemal is actually a type which is neither dignified nor lovable. He neither understands nor wants to hear the aspirations of her two lovers or advice from friends and relatives; he will accept the role of buffoon whose neighbors make fun and business relations by pursuing Füsun her home and in her marital intimacy; it will build a museum on the illusion that it could interest people other than him. The glossy Pamuk art is to make us endearing that poor guy - both destroyed and transfigured by his Great Love.