

Laddar... My Name Is Red (urspr publ 1998; utgåvan 2002)av Erdağ M. Göknar
VerkdetaljerMitt namn är röd av Orhan Pamuk (1998)
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E' un libro particolare, perché imbevuto delle millenarie tradizioni orientali e allo stesso tempo innovativo nella struttura e nello stile. Ci sono tre piani di lettura che si intrecciano continuamente come in un gioco ad incastro: innanzitutto abbiamo un mistero da risolvere, che costituisce l'ossatura del romanzo; la parte più intima ed introspettiva è rappresentata invece dalla storia di Nero e Sekure, una vicenda agrodolce piena di amore, confusione e rimpianti; infine ad un livello più universale e filosofico troviamo la vera anima di quest'opera: una disamina profonda sullo stretto legame tra arte, filosofia e religione, di cui Pamuk si serve per mettere a fuoco l'eterno conflitto tra oriente e occidente, che tormentava i miniaturisti alla fine del '500 e continua a lacerare la Turchia di oggi. Questi aspetti così diversi tra loro si armonizzano grazie ad una ardita scelta stilistica: una polifonia di voci che si alternano a raccontare, ognuna delle quali ribalta il nostro punto di vista e ci porta a vedere il mondo coi suoi occhi. Il punto di vista multiplo non è certo una novità, ma qui l'autore con una concezione quasi animistica del mondo da voce ai morti, agli oggetti inanimati e perfino ad un colore. Non è una lettura semplice e soprattutto non è scorrevole: la narrazione avanza lentamente, con un ritmo cadenzato che se da un lato ben si accorda alle atmosfere del romanzo, dall'altro lato non permette mai un vero coinvolgimento. Confesso che ogni tanto mi sono sentita spiazzata dall'eccesso di nomi e dettagli ed ho fatto un po' fatica ad immedesimarmi nei personaggi, che ho sentito tutti molto lontani da me e dal mio modo di pensare occidentale. Nel complesso lo giudico un libro di grande spessore, forse un po' troppo ambizioso nelle intenzioni, ma di sicuro scritto magistralmente. Whilst I attempt to get my own thoughts in order, for those curious about this book, I strongly recommend reading both Nandakishore's review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/225675190?book_show_action=false&from_... and Whitaker's here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66808624?book_show_action=false&from_r... The fact that the reviews are so very different in content, attitude, the lot surely has something to do with the book. More later. And, ahem...almost three years later: But I simply couldn’t think of anything good to say. I’ve discovered, however, that I have company, I’m not the only person in the world who has an aversion for this book. Discovering that has given me the strength to move on without feeling like it must be my fault or that I should be feeling guilty. As much as I loved Museum of Innocence I dislike this. There, I’ve said it. And do go to the reviews referenced above to read erudite discussions of this book. But for me, I've taken off a star and I do still wonder if that is kind. Whilst I attempt to get my own thoughts in order, for those curious about this book, I strongly recommend reading both Nandakishore's review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/225675190?book_show_action=false&from_... and Whitaker's here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66808624?book_show_action=false&from_r... The fact that the reviews are so very different in content, attitude, the lot surely has something to do with the book. More later. And, ahem...almost three years later: But I simply couldn’t think of anything good to say. I’ve discovered, however, that I have company, I’m not the only person in the world who has an aversion for this book. Discovering that has given me the strength to move on without feeling like it must be my fault or that I should be feeling guilty. As much as I loved Museum of Innocence I dislike this. There, I’ve said it. And do go to the reviews referenced above to read erudite discussions of this book. But for me, I've taken off a star and I do still wonder if that is kind. The basic plot synopsis is this: we are in Istanbul in the 16th century when the Sultan employs multiple artists to spend their lives toiling on beautiful and intricate illustrations in books, some until they literally go blind. One of the senior illustrators is murdered near the start, and we must spend the whole novel trying to find out who it was. The suspense is compounded by the shift to a different narrator in every chapter, and I can't imagine how challenging it was to write this way. I don't remember reading anything quite this creative before or since.
The new one, ''My Name Is Red,'' is by far the grandest and most astonishing contest in Pamuk's internal East-West war. Translated with fluid grace by Erdag M. Goknor, the novel is set in the late 16th century, during the reign of Sultan Murat III, a patron of the miniaturists whose art had come over from Persia in the course of the previous hundred years. It was a time when the Ottomans' confidence in unstoppable empire had begun to be shaken by the power of the West -- their defeat at Lepanto had taken place only a few years earlier -- as well as by its cultural vitality and seductiveness. Ingår i förlagsserien
A furor erupts in sixteenth-century Istanbul when the Sultan commissions the European-style illumination of a great book, and the situation worsens when one of the miniaturists vanishes mysteriously. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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A beautiful painting in a book. A medium transcribed, with the visions of the story from all angles portrayed through the individual perspectives of each chapter/painting. A subtle and intelligent murder mystery, a romantic tale, a classic, told through the eyes of portraits in a way that contorts the reader and makes them re-think everything they could know about art and perspective. Absolutely spectacular. (