In the Images of World Literature slideshow, you saw images related to My Name Is Red. Here you can find resources connected to the text and its world.
Books
- Orhan Pamuk's works have been analyzed and reviewed in many scholarly and popular publications. A list of his works, as well as selected reviews and links to interviews can be found on his English-language site.
http://www.orhanpamuk.net - Azade Seyhan's Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context (World Literatures Reimagined) (2008) has commentary on Pamuk and other novelists.
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Crossed-Destinies-Comparative-Literatures/dp/1603290311/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1 - My Name Is Red draws on both classical Middle Eastern Literature as well as contemporary writers for its inspiration. Here are some of those works:
- Hakīm Abu'l-Qāsim Firdausi's The Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (2009), has been translated by Dick Davis, who also reviewed My Name Is Red for the Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
http://www.amazon.com/Shahnameh-Persian-Book-Kings/dp/1933823410/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282236485&sr=1-1 - Nizami's The Story of Layla & Majnun (1996) is available in a translation by Colin Turner, from 1996, Omega Publications.
http://www.amazon.com/Story-Layla-Majnun-Nizami/dp/0930872525/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282236508&sr=1-1 - Read English translations of essays and fiction excerpts by young Turkish writers at
http://www.transcript-review.org/en/issue/transcript-32-new-prose-fiction-from-turkey/editorial - An Anthology of Turkish Literature (2006) by K. Silay is a text used in Turkish Literature in Translation courses.
http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Turkish-Literature-Kemal-Silay/dp/0978626206/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282236628&sr=1-1 - Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, (2000) by Jason Goodwin, a British travel writer, takes an anecdotal and novelistic approach to Ottoman history.
http://www.amazon.com/Lords-Horizons-History-Ottoman-Empire/dp/0312420668/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282236675&sr=1-2 - The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (2001) by Halil Inalcik, a Turkish historian, is a scholarly work that covers the centuries framing the period of the novel.
http://www.amazon.com/Ottoman-Empire-Classical-Age-1300-1600/dp/1842124420/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287626676&sr=1-3 - Many novels and novelists in the traditions of World Literature have been mentioned in connection with Pamuk. Particularly interesting connections to My Name Is Red can be found in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (whose multiple narrators Pamuk has himself mentioned as a precedent in interviews), Umberto Eco's medieval murder mystery, The Name of the Rose, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (a collection of miniature city portraits, framed in an East-West encounter between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan) and the Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges.
