![]() ![]() Most examples of literary tourism are bottom-up responses to the popularity of a text that captures the imagination. The second part of the chapter discusses Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, an actual museum located in Istanbul, as an original contribution to literary tourism. ![]() The experience of literary tourists relies on a paradox: on the one hand, it is driven by their desire to see the real-world counterparts of fictional places with their own eyes on the other hand, this experience is heavily mediated by the text, so that what is being seen is not a place in itself but a source of literary inspiration. I argue in favour of a conception of literary fiction based on the notion of “possible worlds” that explains both the divergence and similarities between the places mentioned in literature and their real-world counterparts. This chapter explores the many ways stories turn points in space into places, as a prelude to an investigation of the theoretical assumptions that underlie the phenomenon of literary (and more broadly, narrative) tourism. The phenomenon of literary tourism depends on a text’s ability to create a sense of place. ![]()
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