History Literature / MyNameIsRed

* AnonymousKillerNarrator: Featured in a few of the chapters.

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Black, although sometimes it's also used as a GagPenis.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: ''Oh so very much''.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Black sees himself as this for Shekure.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Butterfly.

* LoveWillLeadYouBack: Probably one of Black's motivations for returning from Persia.

** As the book progresses, this gets taken UpToEleven, with [[spoiler: Butterfly]] telling [[spoiler: Black]] a story while holding him down with a knife to his throat, just to discuss how difficult it would be to paint them in that position. Later, [[spoiler: Stork]] tells a story while ''[[TalkingIsAFreeAction wrestling over a dagger.]]''

* HoYay: There is a great deal of homosexuality and ephebophilia going on in the background. As the Storyteller says, this is largely because of the seclusion of women, leading to unmarried men trying to satisfy their natural urges ''somewhere''.

* FoeYay: As the miniaturists and Black begin to turn on each other, their screwed-up relationships begin to manifest in quasi-sexual ways. [[NoFourthWall They comment on this rather dispassionately in the narration.]] [[spoiler: Olive]], in particular, kisses Butterfly several times.

* IntimateHealing: After Black is wounded by [[spoiler:Olive]], Shekure patches him up, and, [[OneThingLedToAnother well...]]

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Butterfly.

''My Name is Red'' is a fine example of a {{p|ostModernism}}ostmodern novel. No two subsequent chapters are told from the same viewpoint, though there are recurring narrators such as Black and his love, Shekure. The first chapter is even narrated by Elegant Effendi's corpse at the bottom of a well. Other chapters are related by inanimate objects, like a drawing of a tree or a gold coin. ''My Name is Red'' won the Dublin Literary Award for its author, Orhan Pamuk. Though not the easiest novel, the persistent reader will be rewarded with a fascinating and sometimes disturbing glimpse into Ottoman culture, values, and society.

* HoYay: There is a great deal of homosexuality and ephibophilia going on in the background. As the Storyteller says, this is largely because of the seclusion of women, leading to unmarried men trying to satisfy their natural urges ''somewhere''.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Hasan]] finally shows up in person again at the end, just in time to [[spoiler: kill the fleeing Olive, whom he mistakes for one of Black's friends.]]

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:In one of the novel's most powerful scenes, Master Osman puts out his own eyes in order to embrace blindness and paint only from his idealized memory, and not from the decaying world around him.]]

* FoeYay: As the miniaturists and Black begin to turn on each other, their screwed-up relationships begin to manifest in quasi-sexual ways. [[NoFourthWall They comment on this rather dispassionately in the narration.]]

* DysfunctionJunction: The miniaturists' workshop is full of very, very large egos that only work together in harmony because of their devotion to Master Osman. Add to that the fact that Master Osman used to beat them all severely ([[ValuesDissonance which they remember with gratitude]]) and that he had molested his favourite [[spoiler: Butterfly]] (which the others envied and [[spoiler: Butterfly]] is [[TeacherStudentRomance nostalgic]] about). It doesn't take long after the murder for all hell to break loose.