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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.

Time

My Name Is Red

The historical time of late-Ottoman 1591.

Space

My Name Is Red

The Istanbul of the miniaturists.

Matter

My Name Is Red

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

Observer

My Name Is Red

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

Energy

My Name Is Red

Energies of seeing, painting, killing.

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.