FIVE CITIES BETWEEN TWO PERSPECTIVES: THE READING ESSAY BEŞ ŞEHİR ACCORDING TO TANPINAR AND MANGUEL
İKİ BAKIŞ ARASINDA BEŞ ŞEHİR: BEŞ ŞEHİR’İ TANPINAR VE MANGUEL ZAVİYESİNDEN OKUMA DENEMESİ

Author : Yunus ALICI
Number of pages : 350-371

Abstract

Beş Şehir is a city monograph of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar occuring his thoughts and interpretations of five cities, which he observes as an enlightened and reputable identity. While writing Beş Şehir, he moves from anti-political ground, pure history, architecture, beauty and he is affected by connotations. In Alberto Manguel’s work called Tanpınar’ın İzinde Beş Şehir, is not based on the points of Tanpınar, which can be described as an imitation of Tanpınar’s work. He describes what he sees in an orientalist automaton with a Western writer identity. His work is nothing more than a travel inscription with a thesis. In this work, we will try to determine why Manguel missed the trace of Tanpınar comparing first Tanpınar and after Manguel’s Beş Şehir in terms of orientalism.

Keywords

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Alberto Manguel, Beş Şehir, Orientalism.

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