"Love as a relic, frozen in amber
By Marie Arana
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
By Orhan Pamuk
Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
Knopf. 535 pp. $28.95
One of the trickier subjects in fiction is that of the hapless suitor, besotted with love, locked in a lifelong obsession with a woman he can neither leave nor have. Yet, for all the perils of that soupy scenario, great literature has come of it. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote memorably of just such a man in 'The Great Gatsby'; William Styron, in 'Sophie's Choice'; Gabriel García Márquez, in 'Love in the Time of Cholera'; and Mario Vargas Llosa, in 'The Bad Girl.'"
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