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Benim Adım Kırmızı | My name is red
" .. is a novel presented in many voices and from many perspectives. The short chapters are narrated by more than a dozen different characters; most are human, but they also include a dog, a horse, a tree, and a coin."
It is an interesting read (warning: immense detail on miniature art; but that is along with a well written crime story in a historical setting crowned with fine details and analysis of persons and personas in between the lines). But then again I like almost all writing by Orhan Pamuk. Okay I think (and some will surely disagree) that his pre-Yeni Hayat books are particularly good, though I enjoyed reading his later novels too. There's plenty of criticism to his use of Turkish, but I'm pretty sure he does this because of a "style" in his writing - with the "poetic licence" rather than any sort of lack of grammar.
But red? That's a paradox(*), isn't it? :)
"Color is a paradox. It exists only in light, which to the human eye seems almost colorless. Without light there can be no color (1)." If this statement is true, then how does then how it is possible to see such a diversity of colors in nature, and how do we, as humans achieve numerous effects by color? To the answer this question we have to understand major elements. They are light, which is the source of color; the object and how it reacts and responds to color; and the eye which is the perceiver of color (1)."
Picture from a few years ago, fall, Finland, more particularly somewhere in Espoo.
The red thing is my old (and I mean old!) car. May good old Cesna rest in peace.
(*) This would be a "light" (or "poetic") use of the term paradox. See the Wikipedia article on paradox for its meaning as a term in several areas, its philosophical definition, types, etc.
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