Behold how wonderful it is to live! Behold how wonderful to see.

How wonderful it is to cover a surface that awaits me with my own victorious being! Wherever I’m spread, I see eyes shine, passions increase, eyebrows rise and heartbeats quicken. All Video on Demand files are protected by copyright law and are free for this streaming purpose only. Then, as now, the city is on the edge of two worlds, responding to the demands of change and tradition. I’m not afraid of other colours, shadows, crowds or even of loneliness. This video introduces My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk’s evocative novel of miniaturists in 16th-century Istanbul. In 2003 he won the IMPAC prize for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. I do not conceal myself: For me, delicacy manifests itself neither in weakness nor in subtlety, but through determination and will. Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books of fiction, nonfiction, and photography. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted. Part of me, the serious half, calls out to your vision while the mirthful half sours through the air with your glances. Because I’ve listened to souls whispering – like the susurrus of the wind – from book to book and object to object for tens or thousands of years, allow me to say that my touch resembles the touch of angels. “I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour?Ĭolour is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness. One of the Nobel Prize winners best-loved novels, in a special edition featuring an introduction by the author and a chronology of Islamic and Western.

Pamuk my name is red