Resimli Dünya

by Nedim Gürsel

Turkish

335 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Nedim Gürsel was born in Gaziantep, Turkey, in 1951. He published his first novellas and essays in Turkish literary magazines in the late 60s. After the coup d’état in 1971, he had to testify in court for one of his articles. This led to his decision to temporarily reside in France. He studied Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris and completed his dissertation in 1979 on Nâzim Hikmet and Louis Aragon. Gürsel then returned to Turkey, but the military putsch of 1980 sent him back into exile in France. He first wrote articles and travel reports which were published in 'Le Monde', as well as in the Turkish newspapers 'Cumhuriyet' and 'Milliyet'. Today he teaches contemporary Turkish literature at the Sorbonne and directs the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Reviews

[Ugur Tezcan · Rating 5 out of 5]

C'était ma première rencontre avec cet auteur et il m'a émerveillé. Le style est joli, les passages sur l'histoire vous font traverser des lieux et des moments que l'on n'apprend pas en cours ou d'un livre d'histoire. Je vais certainement continuer à lire Nedim Gursel

[Burcu]

Nedim Gursel'in tarihsel romanciligi uzerine - https://wanderlustpress.net/2016/12/1...

[Delphine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Je viens de finir Les Turbans de Venise de Nedim Gürsel, écrivain turc né en 1951.

Kâmil Uzman, digne professeur d'art, quitte Istanbul pour se rendre à Venise sur les traces de Gentile Bellini, frère de Giovanni Bellini, qui s'était rendu en Turquie pour faire le portrait du sultan Mehmet le Conquérant, destructeur de Byzance. Sur place, il découvre une jeune femme qui lui rappelle la Sainte Catherine d'un tableau de Bellini. Amoureux, son attirance n'est pas réciproque et il finit par fréquenter les prostituées et les lieux louches.

Ce roman traite de l'exil, du déracinement, des liens entre Orient et Occident, des femmes, de l'art et, surtout, est un merveilleux tableau de Venise, digne des peintres du Quattrocento.

[Özgün · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bir sanat tarihi ansiklopedisi bitirmiş gibi hissediyorum. Bilgiye doydum ama hikayeye değil. Bir de eril dile bir takıldım, genelde öznel tercih der takılmam ama bu öyle böyle değildi.