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Today we'll continue on our journey to Pierre Loti Istanbul Turkey.
Pierre Loti naturally adapted to Istanbul. Actually, this sudden adaptation was the sign of a longing for the past. He had been unable to find tranquility in his homeland, but he found it in Istanbul. For him, Istanbul was the city of peace, silence, tranquility, relaxation, calmness and tolerance. However, the pigeons in the mosque courtyards, the storks in the streets, the swaying cypresses near the minarets, the silence of the coffeehouses with customers with white beards and white turbans, and the magnificent view of the Bosphorus started to fade in the fog and darkness. These images would soon be nothing but nostalgia.
Pierre Loti reacted against this transformation; his romanticist and nostalgic point of view gave way to criticism. His criticism was for European colonialist civilization, that incredibly turned a blind eye to the loss of a civilization. Claude Frère, one of Loti’s students, also supported him. Loti now had a bad name in the West because he defended Turks and Turkey; nevertheless, he received great attention in the world of Turkish politics and culture after 1910. He became “The only friend of the Turk except the Turk” - a wordplay on the motto ‘Turk is the only friend of the Turk’. The Turcophile Loti was now a friend of Turkish people as well. His name was given to a street in Divanyolu and to one of his favorite coffeehouses in Eyüp. However, his Istanbul, the city he desperately loved, was bound to remain as a reality of the past. This was unavoidable in the new world order.
Unfortunately, Pierre Loti, the “the friend of the Turks,” was unable to avoid falling in the grasp of the Orientalist discourse which the West had formulated towards the Orient despite his great love for Turks and Turkey, notwithstanding his efforts to eliminate the Western prejudice against the Orient, and the Turks in particular. It was possible to see the traces of conceptions such as “Oriental Despotism” and “the Orient as the other.” In this context, Loti maintains orientalist discourse described by Edward Said in his work Orientalism, as, “The Oriental man lives in the Orient, lives in an environment where there is extreme bullying and passion. With exaggerated belief in fate, the Oriental man continues to live peacefully”1 By the same token, Loti also sketched the mystical “harem life” in the Ottoman State in his novels, especially in Aziyade, while narrating a passionate love story,. Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman State, was described as a center of hedonism –a theme much popular in French and English literature since the beginning of the nineteenth century based on the travellers’ accounts. Loti shared this view with travellers before him. He was criticized in the West for his desire to reconstruct the Orient in the West, for his efforts to understand and explain “strange” customs and manners of a society that he wanted to be a part of. Yet, he is also criticized for reducing the Orient to a fancy world. Thus, Pierre Loti could not help but be the “other” in both civilizations.
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Pierre Loti secara alami beradaptasi dengan Istanbul. Sebenarnya adaptasi mendadak ini adalah tanda kerinduan akan masa lalu. Dia tidak dapat menemukan ketenangan di tanah airnya, tetapi dia menemukannya di Istanbul. Baginya, Istanbul adalah kota kedamaian, keheningan, ketenangan, relaksasi, ketenangan, dan toleransi. Namun, merpati di halaman masjid, burung bangau di jalanan, pohon cemara yang bergoyang di dekat menara, kesunyian kedai kopi dengan pelanggan berjanggut putih dan serban putih, dan pemandangan indah Bosphorus mulai memudar dalam kabut dan kabut. kegelapan. Gambar-gambar ini akan segera menjadi nostalgia.
Pierre Loti bereaksi terhadap transformasi ini; sudut pandangnya yang romantis dan nostalgia digantikan oleh kritik. Kritiknya adalah untuk peradaban kolonialis Eropa, yang secara luar biasa menutup mata terhadap hilangnya sebuah peradaban. Claude Frère, salah satu murid Loti, juga mendukungnya. Loti sekarang memiliki nama buruk di Barat karena dia membela Turki dan Turki; namun demikian, ia mendapat perhatian besar dalam dunia politik dan budaya Turki setelah tahun 1910. Ia menjadi "Satu-satunya teman orang Turki kecuali orang Turki" - permainan kata dengan moto 'Turki adalah satu-satunya teman orang Turki'. Turcophile Loti sekarang juga menjadi teman orang Turki. Namanya diberikan untuk sebuah jalan di Divanyolu dan salah satu kedai kopi favoritnya di Eyüp. Namun, Istanbul-nya, kota yang sangat dia cintai, harus tetap menjadi kenyataan di masa lalu. Ini tidak dapat dihindari dalam tatanan dunia baru.
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