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The Real Life Museum Analysis

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composition, etc. Like many romantic amalgam, the story posits thick and dark plot lines, while at the same time showing the poetics of romanticism. In the words of Lazzarich, intertextuality in this novel can be seen in the

"evocation of romantic motives, strong emotion and Goethe’s love triangle [which] represent a citational dedication to romanticism and a literary bridge towards the most emotional period in literary history" (Lazzarich, p. 116).

The novel and its real-life museum is a representation of the other side of Turkey, where westernization, secularization, and upper-class lifestyles that exist in the country simultenously alongside the traditional as well as the poorer section of the

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