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My Name Is Red

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My Name Is Red	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Weaving together art, history, religion, and a dozen other weighty concepts, My Name is Red is a byzantine and thought-provoking novel. The year is 1591, and from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Sultan Murat III rules over the vast (and perhaps decaying) Ottoman Empire. It is a cold winter, snow falling around the slender minarets, the city seeming to turn in on itself for warmth. Around the world, new lands are being discovered, and the barbarous Franks grow ever more impetuous.But this is of little concern to the miniaturists employed by the Sultan to illuminate books. Following the traditions of the Persian masters, they draw the world, hoping to capture the eternal and ineffable. Yet their lives are disrupted by the murder of one of their own, Elegant Effendi. Now, Kara, known as Black, a miniaturist who has returned from a long sojourn in Safavid Persia, must find the culprit before he and all other miniaturists have confessions tortured out from them.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })My Name is Red is a fine example of a postmodern novel. No two subsequent chapters are told from the same viewpoint, though there are recurring narrators such as Black and his love, Shekure. The first chapter is even narrated by Elegant Effendi's corpse at the bottom of a well. Other chapters are related by inanimate objects, like a drawing of a tree or a gold coin. My Name is Red won the Dublin Literary Award for its author, Orhan Pamuk. Though not the easiest novel, the persistent reader will be rewarded with a fascinating and sometimes disturbing glimpse into Ottoman culture, values, and society.
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My Name Is Red / int_1d891b9e	type	True Art Is Ancient
My Name Is Red / int_1d891b9e	comment	True Art Is Ancient: Many characters see older art as being superior, which is one of the reasons there is such a hostile reaction to European influences. invoked
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My Name Is Red / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
My Name Is Red / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: And how. Inanimate narrators, for example drawings, are quite aware of (and often comment on) their nature as drawings and further more as drawings that are narrating chapters in a book. Even the human characters are keenly aware that they have an audience.
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My Name Is Red / int_1f4bb5b4	type	Let Me Tell You a Story
My Name Is Red / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: Olive, Stork, and Butterfly each tell Black three stories when he's first sent to question them regarding Elegant Effendi's murder. As the book progresses, this gets taken up to eleven, with Butterfly telling Black a story while holding him down with a knife to his throat, just to discuss how difficult it would be to paint them in that position. Later, Stork tells a story while wrestling over a dagger.
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My Name Is Red / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
My Name Is Red / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: More or less how the characters see the world. Pessimism is so ingrained into the culture that history is portrayed as the course of inevitable decay. To some extent, the novel shows this as being a self-fulfilling prophecy, as the once-barbaric European states grow in power, and the Ottoman Empire becomes ever more sclerotic.
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My Name Is Red / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
My Name Is Red / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Shekure's husband never returned from a campaign against the Safavids. He is most likely dead, though this is never confirmed.
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My Name Is Red / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
My Name Is Red / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: While the novel is very literary and many of the characters indulge in Purple Prose, words like "cock" will frequently show up if called for.
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My Name Is Red / int_3ac8baf	type	StoryWithinAStory
My Name Is Red / int_3ac8baf	comment	Story Within a Story: There are several, though the most important is that of Hüsrev and Shirin, an age-old Persian tale of doomed lovers.
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My Name Is Red / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
My Name Is Red / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: A bit of this appears in Shekure's story, as she will be required to marry her husband's brother if she cannot find a husband.
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My Name Is Red / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
My Name Is Red / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: It is routine for suspects and criminals to be tortured. Though none of the characters wish to undergo torture, they have no moral problem with it.
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My Name Is Red / int_487b1e5b	type	Marry for Love
My Name Is Red / int_487b1e5b	comment	Marry for Love: Averted, at least for Shekure. Society expects her to be married. Her motivations for eventually marrying Black seem motivated as much by pragmatism as by romance, and she does not always appear to love Black.
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My Name Is Red / int_57dda60c	type	The Emperor
My Name Is Red / int_57dda60c	comment	The Emperor: Sultan Murat III is held in deep reverence, with characters reluctant to even look upon his visage.
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My Name Is Red / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
My Name Is Red / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Butterfly.
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My Name Is Red / int_5c24cfa1	type	Love Will Lead You Back
My Name Is Red / int_5c24cfa1	comment	Love Will Lead You Back: Probably one of Black's motivations for returning from Persia.
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My Name Is Red / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
My Name Is Red / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: Black, although sometimes it's also used as a Gag Penis.
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My Name Is Red / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
My Name Is Red / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Olive goes further and further off the deep end after the murder. However, he continues functioning intelligently and logically, and it is only clear that he has truly snapped when we find out what he did with Enishte Effendi's missing painting: he attempted to make a portrait of himself in the place intended for the Sultan in the middle of the picture (which within their cultural context, isn't merely arrogant and stupid; it's blasphemous in at least two separate ways and constitutes treason).
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My Name Is Red / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
My Name Is Red / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Shekure has two sons, named Orhan and Shevket. The author of the novel is, of course, Orhan Pamuk, and he has an older brother named Shevket. Not only that, but Shekure was the name of Orhan Pamuk's mother. Shekure is one of the most important characters, but Orhan and Shevket don't get much attention.
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My Name Is Red / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
My Name Is Red / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Miniaturism.
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My Name Is Red / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
My Name Is Red / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: Significant portions of the book show how European art is based on fundamentally different assumptions than is Middle Eastern art. As an example, miniaturists strive to avoid individualistic styles (though they might insert key elements that would only be recognized by a chosen few), and the idea of an artist signing his work is arrogance at best, and blasphemy at worst. invoked
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My Name Is Red / int_6ca84a8f	type	Treasure Room
My Name Is Red / int_6ca84a8f	comment	Treasure Room: Sultan Murat III's private collection, which contains a staggering profusion of art and treasure from around the world. It's also dusty and neglected by its owner, who leaves a solitary dwarf to watch over it. When Black and Master Osman are allowed access to search for clues, it's a really big deal for them, especially Master Osman who cares more about seeing the treasures than in finding the murderer.
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My Name Is Red / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
My Name Is Red / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: The miniaturists' workshop is full of very, very large egos that only work together in harmony because of their devotion to Master Osman. Add to that the fact that Master Osman used to beat them all severely (which they remember with gratitude) and that he had molested his favourite, Butterfly (which the others envied and Butterfly is nostalgic about). It doesn't take long after the murder for all hell to break loose.
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My Name Is Red / int_88574a	type	Narrator All Along
My Name Is Red / int_88574a	comment	Narrator All Along: in the final chapter narrated by Shekure, she reveals the whole book has been written by her son, Orhan, even going so far as to ask readers to forgive his biases.
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My Name Is Red / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
My Name Is Red / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Olive wrestles Black's dagger from him, wounds him in the shoulder, and makes a run for it. Before fleeing the city, he passes by the workshop one more time, where he runs into Hasan. Hasan recognizes the dagger, assumes he's one of Black's allies, and cuts his head off.
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My Name Is Red / int_96709930	type	Posthumous Narration
My Name Is Red / int_96709930	comment	Posthumous Narration: Elegant Effendi, who narrates the first chapter after his dead body has been dropped down a well, and later Enishte Effendi who narrates his own funeral.
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My Name Is Red / int_9b1e50bd	type	During the War
My Name Is Red / int_9b1e50bd	comment	During the War: Much talk is made of the violent wars between Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Persia. Black is a veteran of this conflict, and Shekure's first husband probably died in it.
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My Name Is Red / int_a0746efc	type	Anonymous Killer Narrator
My Name Is Red / int_a0746efc	comment	Anonymous Killer Narrator: Featured in a few of the chapters.
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My Name Is Red / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
My Name Is Red / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Black sees himself as this for Shekure.
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My Name Is Red / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
My Name Is Red / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In one of the novel's most powerful scenes, Master Osman puts out his own eyes in order to embrace blindness and paint only from his idealized memory, and not from the decaying world around him. Later, Stork attempts to blind Olive, although it isn't clear if he actually would have gone blind.
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My Name Is Red / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
My Name Is Red / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Perhaps more in submission than in slavery, but the idea is discussed several times, ranging from human submission to God, a subject's submission to a king, and an apprentice's submission to a master.
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My Name Is Red / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
My Name Is Red / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Oh so very much.
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My Name Is Red / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
My Name Is Red / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: Black gets one when he receives a note from Shekure - in front of her father, his uncle.
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My Name Is Red / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
My Name Is Red / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: All of the Storyteller's stories in the coffeehouse are this towards Nusret Hoja.
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My Name Is Red / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
My Name Is Red / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The Storyteller's stories begin with disagreement with Nusret Hoja's theology. As time goes on, they feature his stand-in's being buggered by the Devil himself, and then "I am a Woman" features crossdressing for sexual purposes, "Not-Husret-By-A-Long-Shot Effendi" having sex with multiple young boys, and says that he has terrible breath. Then Nusret Hoja's goons break in...
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My Name Is Red / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
My Name Is Red / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: After Black is wounded by Olive, Shekure patches him up, and, well...
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My Name Is Red / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
My Name Is Red / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Hasan finally shows up in person again at the end after affecting the plot from offscreen for some time, just in time to kill the fleeing Olive, whom he mistakes for one of Black's friends.
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My Name Is Red / int_de19df2b	type	The Matchmaker
My Name Is Red / int_de19df2b	comment	The Matchmaker: Esther, a Jewish woman, carries love letters between paramours.
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My Name Is Red / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
My Name Is Red / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Ottoman miniaturism is being gradually influenced by the more individualistic European (and to a lesser extent, Chinese) styles. This is quite disturbing to the miniaturists, whose art is deeply tied with Islam and Turkish identity. At the same time, much of the art style was already borrowed from Persia.
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My Name Is Red / int_e7b1cb24	type	Old Master
My Name Is Red / int_e7b1cb24	comment	Old Master: Some non-combat examples here, like Master Osman, the conservative head of the miniaturists' workshop. There are also references to real miniaturists, like Bizahd of Herat.
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My Name Is Red / int_eb4f769f	type	Race Fetish
My Name Is Red / int_eb4f769f	comment	Race Fetish: A culture-wide one: it is traditional for the miniaturists to signify that a woman is very beautiful by depicting her as Chinese.
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My Name Is Red / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
My Name Is Red / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Nothing really hammers home the Deliberate Values Dissonance like, for example, an artist going into rapturous Purple Prose about the beautiful horse he is drawing and finishing by describing its rump as "like the gentle butt of a boy I was about to violate."
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My Name Is Red / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
My Name Is Red / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Nusret Hoja, a conservative imam railing against coffee shops and other luxuries. His shadow hangs over every event in the book, but he never actually appears.
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My Name Is Red / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
My Name Is Red / int_ff5a74c8	comment	As the book progresses, this gets taken up to eleven, with Butterfly telling Black a story while holding him down with a knife to his throat, just to discuss how difficult it would be to paint them in that position. Later, Stork tells a story while wrestling over a dagger.
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My Name Is Red / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
My Name Is Red / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Pamuk knows his stuff, and isn't shy about showing it off.
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