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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The... read more
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The main characters in the novel are miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire, one of whom is murdered in the first chapter.
Each chapter of the novel has a different narrator, and usually there are thematic and chronological connections between chapters. In addition, unexpected voices are... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
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- Master Osman
- Tall Hasan
- Esther
- Allah
- Orhan
- Shekure
- Hayriye
- Shirin
- Shevket
- Shah Tahmasp
- Selahattin Khan
- Satan
- Shah Ismail
- Muhammad
- Alexander
- Mama
- Kalbiye
- Agha
- Htisrev
- Azrael
- Ibn Shakir
- Bey
- Sultan Selim
- Bihzad
- Leyla
- Nizami
- Nesim
- The Storyteller
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“To know is to remember that you've seen. To see is to know without remembering. Thus, painting is remembering the blackness.”
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
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Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I’d been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
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A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds.
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painting is the act of seeking out Allah’s memories and seeing the world as He sees the world.”
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“Blindness is silence. If you combine what I’ve just now said, the first and the second questions, ‘blindness’ will emerge. It’s the farthest one can go in illustrating; it is seeing what appears out of Allah’s own blackness.”
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
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I thank Allah that I, the humble tree before you, have not been drawn with such intent. And not because I fear that if I’d been thus depicted all the dogs in Istanbul would assume I was a real tree and piss on me: I don’t want to be a tree, I want to be its meaning.
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To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn’t treat it as a career. Despite whatever great artistic sense and talent a man might possess, he ought to seek money and power elsewhere to avoid forsaking his art when he fails to receive proper compensation for his gifts and efforts.
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Now that I’ve reached this age, I know that true respect arises not from the heart, but from discrete rules and deference.
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To know is to remember that you’ve seen. To see is to know without remembering. Thus, painting is remembering the blackness.
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First Sentence edit
I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2003 of 15 in International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winners. (community list)
Preceded by The Elementary Particles, and followed by This Blinding Absence of Light.
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This book is in Outstanding books by Nobel Prizes in Literature. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Orhan Pamuk (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Turkish
Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Country: Turkey
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Page Count: 417
Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Country: Turkey
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Page Count: 417
Awards edit
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2003, Winner)
- Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (2002: Novel)
- Premio Grinzane Cavour (2002)
- Nobel Prize (2006)
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- Dewey: 894.3533
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