The Museum of Innocence was published as a novel in 2008, became a physical museum in 2012, and reached a much wider audience with this year's Netflix series.
Euronews Turkish team was personally welcomed at the museum by Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk who discussed the philosophy behind the novel, the memorial power of objects and his thoughts on the museum's legacy.
The sentence 'I didn't know it was the happiest moment of my life' is now recognised as one of the most striking openings in world literature. What do you think makes this sentence so powerful?
The novel also ends with this sentence: "Let everyone know, I have lived a very happy life." The first and the last sentence have three words in common: happiness, life and know. These three are very important characters in my novelisation. We may be happy, but we may not know it; as a matter of fact, the protagonist Kemal is exactly the same in this regard.
I think the most important value of life is happiness. Tolstoy is the greatest writer for me, in all his novels he explored the meaning of life and the reasons for happiness. Since The Museum of Innocence is a novel that deals with all these issues - happiness, life and the meaning of life, realising happiness - it begins and ends with two sentences containing these words.
