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Work #832 · Mid

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk
1998 (Turkish Benim Adım Kırmızı); 2001 (English) · Turkish
Historical novel · Late-twentieth-century Turkish literature

Pamuk's 1998 historical novel — late-Ottoman miniaturists, European painting, and a murder mystery

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Attribute My Name Is Red (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method —
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

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Time

My Name Is Red

The historical time of late-Ottoman 1591.

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Space

My Name Is Red

The Istanbul of the miniaturists.

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Matter

My Name Is Red

The miniature paintings, the murdered body, the colour Red.

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Observer

My Name Is Red

Twenty narrative voices (human, animal, object, colour).

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Energy

My Name Is Red

Energies of seeing, painting, killing.

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Information

My Name Is Red

The Persian-Ottoman miniature tradition encountering European perspective.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

My Name Is Red

Pamuk's My Name Is Red: foundational for late-twentieth-century Turkish literature; Pamuk's Nobel Prize (2006) and a meditation on East-West encounter.