Abstract
Orhan Pamuk’s latest novel Benim Adim Kirmzi (My Name is Red) is a historical, detective and love story concerning the 16th century Ottoman nakkas (a general term for painters, illuminators and miniaturists in Islamic art). In this novel, Pamuk intends to build up a dialogue between the 16th century Ottoman artists and the 20th century Turkish reader. The writer desires to construct a second type of dialogue, which is between the East and the West, through the novel’s postmodern metafictional form. The aim of this paper is to analyze how Pamuk introduces the art of the East by using the technique of the West. To achieve this aim, first the discussion among the nakkas on stylistic differences in Western and Eastern art will be examined, then the structure of the novel will be scrutinized.
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