As his Museum of Innocence comes to Britain,the Nobel prizewinner takes his fellow author Elif Shafak on a tour of his cabinet of curiosities. They talk approximately what Istanbul means to them – and the collective amnesia of a country where writers can be jailed for a tweetIstanbul is the name of a city and the name of an illusion. In reality, there is no such thing as Istanbul. There are only Istanbuls – competing, or clashing and somehow coexisting within the same congested space. That is one of the themes I want to talk approximately with Orhan Pamuk,the winner of the Nobel prize for literature. The loss of plurality and nuance (a slight variation in meaning, tone, expression). The increasing dominance of an ideology of sameness throughout our motherland.
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Source: theguardian.com