My name is red - Orhan Pamuk The novel “My Name is Red” is not easy to read. Before starting it, you will need to know the time about which Orhan wrote the novel My Name is Red, and for the love of drawing, engraving and Islamic decorative arts that were the focus of the events of the novel My Name is Red. But whoever reads it, will not forget it, and its impact will remain in his heart for a long time, and he will remember the characters of the novel as if they lived with him. Orhan's method is smooth, beautiful and abundant with historical and artistic information and clever hints. My name is red It deals with the life stories of engravers working in the Ottoman Empire, and the harsh days in which they were living.
What they do, and society would not have left them, in my name is Ahmar, Orhan Pamuk tells us about Sheikh Erzurum, who incites his followers to attack engravers and inscription khans, and everything that was new to the city at that time. Orhan Pamuk approaches a different way of telling the novel My Name is Red. There is not only one narrator, but each character in the novel My Name is Red tells about herself, her story, what is going on in her head and what she intends to do, and so is each chapter of the novel in which one of the characters speaks. The novel began with a resonant phrase: “Now I am dead. A corpse at the bottom of a pit.” It may not be difficult to write on the tongue of the dead, but Orhan did not write on the tongue of the dead only.. He plunged into death and beyond, describing and narrating as if he had died and then came back to life
It should be noted that the red color appears in many details of the novel, as it was the dominant color in that Ottoman era. My name is red novel by Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red is one of the most important works of Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk The novel My Name is Red is considered the key to Orhan's entry into the world and his obtaining the Nobel Prize