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there;  an  efficient  and  fastidious  librarian  had  them  bound  together  with

other  unrelated  illustrations  belonging  to  the  workshop;  and  thus  they  were

separated  into  several  bound  albums。  Hasan  fled  Istanbul;  and  disappeared;

never to be heard from again。 Shevket and Orhan never forgot that it wasn’t

Black but their Uncle Hasan who was the one who killed my father’s murderer。

In  place  of  Master  Osman;  who  died  two  years  after  going  blind;  Stork

became  Head  Illuminator。  Butterfly;  y  late

father’s talents; devoted the rest of his life to drawing ornamental designs for

carpets;  cloths  and  tents。  The  young  assistant  masters  of  the  workshop  gave

themselves  over  to  similar  work。  No  one  behaved  as  though  abandoning

illustration were any great loss。 Perhaps because nobody had ever seen his own

face done justice on the page。

My whole life; I’ve secretly very much wanted two paintings made; which

I’ve never mentioned to anybody:

1。  My  own  portrait;  but  I  knew  however  hard  the  Sultan’s  miniaturists

tried; they’d fail; because even if they could see my beauty; woefully; none of

them would believe a woman’s face was beautiful without depicting her eyes

and lips like a Chinese woman’s。 Had they represented me as a Chinese beauty;

the  way  the  old  masters  of  Herat  would’ve;  perhaps  those  who  saw  it  and

recognized me could discern my face behind the face of that Chinese beauty。

But  later  generations;  even  if  they  realized  my  eyes  weren’t  really  slanted;

could  never  determine  what  my  face  truly  looked  like。  How  happy  I’d  be

today; in my old age—which I live out through the fort of my children—if

I had a youthful portrait of myself!

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2。 A picture of bliss: What the poet Blond Naz?m of Ran had pondered in

one  of  his  verses。  I  know  quite  well  how  this  painting  ought  to  be  made。

Imagine  the  picture  of  a  mother  with  her  two  children;  the  younger  one;

whom she cradles in her arms; nursing him as she smiles; suckles happily at

her  bountiful  breast;  smiling  as  well。  The  eyes  of  the  slightly  jealous  older

brother and those of the mother should be locked。 I’d like to be the mother in

that picture。 I’d want the bird in the sky to be depicted as if flying; and at the

same  time;  happily  and  eternally  suspended  there;  in  the  style  of  the  old

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