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My Name Is Red (Vintage International)

• しいて位置づけるならトルコの村上春樹？！（作風は違うと思うけど世界中で読まれてる現役バリバリの作家って意味で）なOrhan Pamuk。おもしろいんだけど、継続して読むことができなくて、３回目の挑戦ちぅ。週末に往復で10時間くらい電車に乗るからチャンス！ってことで読み直しはじめたり。
• I am a dog.な３章は、犬が語り手。人間一般だけでなく、この小説を読んでる人にも向けた皮肉がはいってたりして、可笑しい。*1

For a dog, you see, nothing is as satisfying as sinking his teeth into his miserable enemy in a fit of instinctual wrath. (p.12)

I'm a dog, and because you humans are less rational beasts than I, you're telling yourselves, "Dogs don't talk." Nevertheless, you seem to believe a story in which corpse speak and characters use words they couldn't know. Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. (p.12)

*1:はまぞうの版は、僕がもってるやつと表紙挿絵違うので、ページが一致しないかも…