mystic demonism trumps marriage, sex, and social upheavals

Interview with Orhan Pamuk. Am I an idiot for being more interested in this novel than Museum of Innocence?

Pamuk: Yes, I have an unfinished novel, which is 25 years old, a Dostoyevskian political novel, in which radical leftist thought is melded with mystic demonism. But when we had our military coup in 1980 it became impossible to publish that novel. It was at that point in time I realized, not without shock, that some of my old Marxist friends were being tempted by radical Islam and its anti-Western logorrhea.

The continuing march towards social consciousness is not a complete turnoff though. Pamuk has yet to disappoint.