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My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
3.0
This book was dense and was a long and difficult read for me! Characters talked in parables and fables about the nature of art, style, verisimilitude and idealization in drawing, sight, blindness, and memory. This is all in a book that at its heart is a murder mystery of a master miniaturist whose work on a book for the Ottoman sultan may be too transgressive in style and earned him enemies.
The book has a lot of different narrators, and it is interesting to try to decipher all of their motives and when they may or may not be reliable. This book also explores the life in 16th Century. Due to the narrative structure, this made me think of [a:Ryūnosuke Akutagawa|5775185|Ryūnosuke Akutagawa|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1357781951p2/5775185.jpg]'s "In A Grove," the source material for the film Rashomon. The artistic discourses made me think of parts of [b:The Name of the Rose|119073|The Name of the Rose|Umberto Eco|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1415375471s/119073.jpg|3138328] talking about the nature of humor.
Read for the Cincinnati Art Museum "See the Story" program meeting on January 19, 2019. Not sure how many really enjoyed the book but it made for very interesting conversation.
The book has a lot of different narrators, and it is interesting to try to decipher all of their motives and when they may or may not be reliable. This book also explores the life in 16th Century. Due to the narrative structure, this made me think of [a:Ryūnosuke Akutagawa|5775185|Ryūnosuke Akutagawa|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1357781951p2/5775185.jpg]'s "In A Grove," the source material for the film Rashomon. The artistic discourses made me think of parts of [b:The Name of the Rose|119073|The Name of the Rose|Umberto Eco|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1415375471s/119073.jpg|3138328] talking about the nature of humor.
Read for the Cincinnati Art Museum "See the Story" program meeting on January 19, 2019. Not sure how many really enjoyed the book but it made for very interesting conversation.