ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the flâneur and his interactions with the city-as-museum in Silent House and The Black Book, and with the museum in the city in The Museum of Innocence and The Innocence of Objects. In so doing, it shows the overlaps between the museum and the city, and how their spaces modify behavior. In their spaces the flâneur seeks an inner meaning, a perspective, a discourse as if within a dream. The focus is on the hallucinatory city and its deluded planners and sees the merging of city and text in Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence. The chapter introduces the categories of the literary flâneur and the mobile flâneur as they emerge from the museum-like city. Incorporating textual mapping as a viable narrative strategy to navigate the city, it establishes the flâneur identity as also subsumed in the category of detective, both literary and literal.
