The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk – review

Orhan Pamuk celebrates his Nobel laureate status with a treatise on the novel. If only he had something original to say…The Nobel prize-winner's book of reflections on art and life is the high-culture equivalent of the celebrity fragrance (such as Katy Perry's Purr). The drawback for the laureate is having to write it him- or herself rather than relying on boffins and marketeers, but the similarities are striking. Sometimes the book makes sense, sometimes the fragrance achieves a distinctive b...

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