In the novel “My Name is Red”, where a thriller and a love story are mixed an artistic discussion, which is appended to the plot takes place: the comparison of the 16th century’s miniature and the Western painting. The author, through using techniques that make the novel dialogical, ensures that the narrative and thus the discussion is opened to multiple readings. Based on the difference between Western and Eastern mentalities, the Western and Eastern paintings are considered at length in the novel, and primarily through narratives offering different opinions of several narrators; the author assures the existence of a dialogical structure. Thus the discussion becomes open to multiple readings on an isochronal plane. On the other side, although the fact that the characters that use a language and discourse, which emphasize a contemporaneous perspective, are at the same time narrators creates an anachronism in the novel, this also leads the discussion to get a vertical dimension on diachronic plane.