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 MY NAME IS RED

By

ORHAN PAMUK

Review by  Aswathy Lazer XI A

As in all all classics of Orhan Pamuk, ‘My Name is Red’ brilliantly lets the story meander along a path lined by nuances of oriental history, corrupted love and the famous eastern versus western conflict.

                                    All the chapters are pictured through the eyes of one of the characters, and each brilliantly captures, and each brilliantly captures the vibrant suspicions, tribulations and inner demons within each. The denastuated, timeless beauty of Tstanbul at the peak of the downfall of the Ottoman empire reverberates in the storyline.

                                                                            To God belongs east and  the west is a recurring tagline. The drama revolves around the debate among the miniaturists serving the Ottoman emperor on whether to adopt the frankish style of painting. The author writes beautifully on the novel art of Islamic miniature painting and the religious and moralistic values nit inculcates.

                                          Above all, the book portrays the instability of human nature , how fears and complexes during moments of desperation into uttarances and actions which dance around the thin line between sanity and insanity.