FUTURE PROGRAMS My Name is Red (Translated by Erdag M. Goknar; Knopf, 2001) ------by Orhan Pamuk Professor Walter James Miller shows why this masterpiece, by Turkey's greatest living novelist, is considered a major example of postmodernist fiction. First of all, it is "double-coded." That is, it is a novel of ideas disguised as a mystery story and as a work of historical fiction. Then, although set in Turkey about 1591, it is really about a 21st-century problem. Here is the clash between the Muslim East and the Judeo-Christian West early in its development. Furthermore, Pamuk's method of narration is distinctly, dazzlingly, revolutionary and provides good examples of "magic realism." Miller ranks "My Name is Red" with Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose." Development of the Modern Short Story Professor Walter James Miller traces the contrasting approaches to the genre that developed in Russia (Vsevolod Garshin, Ivan Turgenev) and in America (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe) and the way they merged finally to become the truly modernist (Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce) and postmodernist (Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Bathelme) approaches.