Ebook {Epub PDF} My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk

My Name is Red Summary. Next. Chapter 1. Elegant has been murdered, and his corpse lies undiscovered at the bottom of a well. Speaking from the afterlife, he hopes that his body is found soon and that the murderer is captured. Meanwhile, Black has returned to Istanbul after 12 years away. Before he left, Black fell in love with his cousin. My Name is Red Summary. Next. Chapter 1. Elegant has been murdered, and his corpse lies undiscovered at the bottom of a well. Speaking from the afterlife, he hopes that his body is found soon and that the murderer is captured. Meanwhile, Black has returned to Istanbul after 12 years away. Before he left, Black fell in love with his cousin. To say that Orhan Pamuk's new novel, My Name is Red, is a murder mystery is like saying that Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery: it is true, but the work so richly transcends the conventional limitations of genre as to make the definition seem almost irrelevant The techniques of classical Islamic literature are used to anchor the book within a tradition of local narrative, but they /5().

To say that Orhan Pamuk's new novel, My Name is Red, is a murder mystery is like saying that Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery: it is true, but the work so richly transcends the conventional limitations of genre as to make the definition seem almost irrelevant. The novel "my name is red" helps one understand the Islam and Turkish culture. The novel "my name is red" is considered blasphemous from an Islamic perspective. After the translated version of the novel "my name is red" was released, it made Pamuk a household name among literature professors and in the United States. Pamuk is the author of novels including Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind and The Red-Haired Woman. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature.

My Name is Red Summary. Elegant has been murdered, and his corpse lies undiscovered at the bottom of a well. Speaking from the afterlife, he hopes that his body is found soon and that the murderer is captured. Meanwhile, Black has returned to Istanbul after 12 years away. My Name Is Red is a Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in Pamuk would later receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of , established Pamuk's international reputation and contributed to his Nobel Prize. The influences of Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Nabokov and Proust and above all Eco can be seen in Pamuk's work. The French translation won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. To say that Orhan Pamuk's new novel, My Name is Red, is a murder mystery is like saying that Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery: it is true, but the work so richly transcends the conventional limitations of genre as to make the definition seem almost irrelevant The techniques of classical Islamic literature are used to anchor the book within a tradition of local narrative, but they can also be used with a wonderfully witty and distancing lightness of touch.