Author of my name is red6/26/2023 ![]() Enishte, in particular, has become enamored of the perspectival method favored by Venetian painters, and wants his artists to achieve a comparable representation of reality, rather than abiding by traditional rules of representation. In coffeehouses frequented by poets and artists, the backwash from the European Renaissance is starting to call into question fundamental principle of Islamic culture. As a murder mystery, it asks who killed a gilder named Elegant, employed by an atelier of miniaturists, and then Enishte, the man who was funding the atelier? On another level, this is a story of ideas. Set in the 16th century, at the tipping point when the Ottoman Empire was being transformed from the world's most feared superpower into an imperial backwater, Pamuk's story works on three levels. ![]() Meshing the tropes of the tavern storyteller with the recent fashion for historical mysteries (à la The Name of the RoseĪnd An Instance of the Fingerpost), Pamuk's novel could cause a sensation here, just as it did in his native Turkey. ![]()
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