Pamuk's "huzun," a Turkish word whose Arabic root (it appears five times in the Koran) thus denotes a feeling of deep spiritual loss coupled with historical loss, but also for the living, a hopeful way of looking at life, "a state of mind" as he puts it, "that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating." The "saudade" of Lisbon, the "tristeza" of Burgos, the "mufa" of Buenos Aires, the "mestizia" of Turin, the "Traurigkeit" of Vienna, the ennui of Alexandria, the ghostliness of Prague, the glumness of Glasgow, the dispiritedness of Boston share only on their surface some common sense of Istanbul's melancholy which is rooted even more deeply in the Sufi mystic's sense of spiritual loss on looking back on the fleeting moment of epiphantic bliss, unsustainable in this world, the ever-yearned "close encounter" with God's presence, which if momentarily aproximated, is forever thereafter lost this side of death. The Nobel-Prize winning Turkish author in his remarkable recapturing of the inner life of his native city "Istanbul" describes the concept of "huzun" as the peculiar shared malancholy for an irretrievably lost greatness that lives in the hearts of the citizens of his native city, the past capital and seat of glory of the Ottoman Empire.
TURKISH NOBEL LAUREATE ORHAN PAMUK'S "ISTANBUL" AND THE CONCEPT OF "HUZUN"
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Wednesday, 15th of February at 19:00:Presentation titled ‘Foreign Travellers in Thessaloniki’ by the art historian, Fani-Maria Tsigakou.WORLD LITERATURE CLASSICS FROM OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND TURKISH LITERATURE-NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE ORHAN PAMUK'S "ISTANBUL" AND THE CONCEPT OF "HUZUN," EVLIYA CELEBI-THE TURKISH MARCO POLO'S "BOOK OF TRAVELS," MIHRI KHATUN & MIMAR SINAN-THE TURKISH MICHELANGELO OF ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE, LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU'S "THE TURKISH EMBASSY LETTERS," FUZULI, & NEDIM-FROM THE WORLD LITERATURE FORUM RECOMMENDED CLASSICS AND MASTERPIECES SERIES VIA GOODREADS-ROBERT SHEPPARD, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sunday, 5th of February at 19:00 : Narration of a fairytale that belongs to the ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ collection. Wednesday, 1st of February at 19:00: Presentation by the Professor of the University of Macedonia, Fotini Tsimpiridou
Valuable contributors to the exhibition include: Khalili Art Collection, Suki Chan, Royal Academy of Music, Adam Williamson, Mercan Dede, Emre Araci, Bethnal Green Library, Caroline Finkel, Donna Laundry, Gerald Maclean, Nabil Matar, Suraiya Faroqhi, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Owen Wright. This exhibition concerns exchange and mutual respect, the manner in which stories are created, and the constant dialogue between the Islamic communities and the cities of Europe. To this day a trained ear can hear how cities such as Constantinople, London, Cairo and Vienna echo with these narratives, which take us back to an age when ideas began to be exchanged. He gathered his adventures in The Book of Travels known as Seyahatname. Inspired by a dream, he set out on a real life journey that simultaneously became a spiritual quest through the Ottoman Empire, which in those days extended from the depths of Anatolia to Europe and Northern Africa. The exhibition ‘Evliya Çelebi: The Book of Travels’ opened on Tuesday, January 24th, and will run through the 17th of February at the Archaelogical Museum of Thessaloniki.Īs part of the program ‘Our Shared Europe’, this exhibition aims to foster dialogue for mutual respect and understanding with the Islamic communities of Europe.Įvliya Çelebi, a 17th century traveler, is the hero of this exhibition.
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