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Visitors to the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich are in for a special kind of exhibition of visual art created by Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk titled “The Consolation of Objects.” The title is from a chapter in Pamuk’s novel of lost love, “The Museum of Innocence,” in which the wealthy but forlorn Kemal takes solace in collecting items and objects that had belonged to his cousin Füsun. His collection becomes at once an obsession and a consolation, and in the end it numbers thousands of objects. Pamuk, 71, wrote the novel – published in 2008 – at the same time that he himself was …

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