Narration Strategy Analysis Of "My Name Is Red"

After《My Name Is Red》was released in China, many readers of the network felt it was hard to understand. However, at the same time, they said they were attracted to go on reading. This seems contradictory. However, it shows the great success of the narrative skills of this work. Probably, a lot of readers were not only out of the author's expectation but also they couldn't figure out the connotation of the work. However, they were impressed by the wonderful arrangement of structure. When the readers still stayed around to investigate the final outcome of a story, they already had to get into understanding of another story. It is exactly the structure of this type—Chinese Set Box—that makes readers feel that the stories come one after another. In the net of the interleaved stories, the narration time interleaves. The author slows down the narration frequency of the main stories, but pays limited attention to the minor stories. The various frequencies make readers feel nervous sometimes and then relaxed. Critics points out frequently that《My Name Is Red》obtains great success on narration. The work puts emphasis not only on the design of structure, but also on narration voice. The design of more story tellers and various narration angles achieves the effect of public clamor. Correspondingly, the set of referred people brings readers to the real situation of the stories and makes them feel genial. The creative design of the narration voice brings more readability to the novel. This is also one of the main reasons that the novel was published in twenty different languages as serious work and became a best seller. Metaphor helps Pamuk to make《My Name Is Red》successful. As it is said in the award term of Nobel literature prize, he"detected the new symbol of conflicts and interleave of the civilization."《My Name Is Red》 demonstrates the conflicts and interleave of the civilization between the eastern and the western world by the usage of symbolism and a series of intentions. There're two kinds of main intentions in the novel. One is fine art and the other one is the colors in it. The fine art of Turkey represents Turkey's culture. In the fine art, there is not only Turkey's own culture; in the meantime it also implicates Chinese culture. The main plots of the work—murder are based on the fine art. The color"red"in the fine art is described clearly in the work. Although there is only one chapter about it, the name of the work contains"red". However,"black"is the main person of clues in the work. These two kinds of color have their deep implied meaning. Red is the most respectable color for Turkey's artists of fine art. It was the color of pure."Red"is one of the primary colors which is different from other colors. However, black is mixed by red and green. Black isn't pure and is the color of mixture. Turkey at that time as the story describes was in the age of various culture mixtures. The intentions in the work are not only a kind of rhetoric means, but also it is the means which announce the connotation of the work to the public. The author passed the philosophical ideas through them. This thesis paper is mainly divided into three parts to analyses the novel. Firstly, it is the analysis of the structure of the work. It says that the work adopted the structure of Chinese Set Box to tell stories. As for narration time, the novel omits the main time background which makes the story have more reality meaning. Various frequencies make the novel more attractive to the readers. Secondly, from the angle of narration voice analysis, readers can realize the author's outstanding narration techniques. The work gathers together numerous narrators'voices and adopts first person narration which looks like that a story teller is telling a story. This is a way not only creative, but also lets the reader feel familiar with the situation. The way of non- fixed-point of restriction angle of view made the contents of the work more rich and abundant. Each narrator's stories aren't sure to be true. Therefore, all the narrators had two kinds of voices. This kind of way is convenient for the author to put his true intension in the work and make the whole work become a parable. In the third part, the emphasis is put on the study of the intentions in this work. The award term of Nobel literature prize shows clearly tha《tMy Name Is Red》is doubtless to be a work with deep implied meanings. Many of the ideas in the work are worthy of analysis and thinking which is very important to this kind of work.