My Name Is Red

Have you ever heard about Orhan Pamuk? I remembered the year of 2007 which I had a great vacation from South Korea to Japan. I was waiting for my friend at the Osaka Airport, and I was too bored. I looked around the stores to keep wasting my time. I bought My Name Is Red, and I went to café to read it. The reason I bought it is that Panuk won the Novel Price this year. While I was reading it, I was surprised because I was not familiar with Islam culture. I was interested in the history of Ottoman Empire and different style of painting. My Name is Red shows the confusion between European and Ottoman culture to reflect the relationship of Turkey as a part of Europe.

          I was influenced by Buddhism, and I had my chance to contact with Christianity. However, most of Asian cultures are not deeply related to Islam culture. I found several interesting points of this book. The narrator is changed by 59 chapters that the painting talked about his stories or other painters describe each characteristic. Also, the novel contains romance, arts, mystery, and philosophy of 16c. Even though I don’t know about Quran, I can understand it through the paintings in noble. The painters got a secret mission from sultan that he ordered his portrait as European point of view.

                

I think that Pamuk does not complain about other culture, but he wants to explain the complex situation in his culture. After I finished read My Name Is Red, I changed my mind to different culture aspects through Kara, investor of murder in the Noble.