One
engine of Cihangir’s revitalization is Mr. Pamuk’s own creation: the Museum of
Innocence, which opened in 2012 in a burgundy building on a steep road leading
down to the curving Golden Horn, which connects the Bosporus to the Sea of
Marmara.
The museum is a meticulously rendered time capsule of 1970s Istanbul,
and a tribute to the power of obsession.
It was inspired by Mr. Pamuk’s 2008
novel “The Museum of Innocence,” about an affluent Istanbul businessman, Kemal
Basmaci, who falls in love with a poor shopgirl, Fusun, and becomes so consumed
that he assembles a collection of every trace of contact with her.
-Joshua Hammer
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