Une lecture postmoderne de Murmures à Beyoğlu : une odyssée intertextuelle de Nabokov à Pamuk, de Paris à Istanbul

• Main Author: Caterina Calafat
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española (AFUE) 2015-04-01
• Series: Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses
• Subjects: Comparative Literature; Literary Postmodernism; Intertextuality; Representation of the Postmodern City
• Online Access: http://cedille.webs.ull.es/11-DEF/06calafat.pdf

This article focuses on Murmures à Beyoğlu (2009), the first novel by French writer David Boratav (Paris, 1971), and on the analysis of some of its basic characteristics as a postmodern novel. Thus, we will prioritize the interpretation of the protagonist and the city as the umpteenth postmodern re-reading of the Odyssey, in the journey of initiation of a Homeric character à la recherche of his lost Ithaca, Istanbul. The portrayal of the central character is completed with a sketch of the intertextual richness of the novel, and the vision of the Turkish capital is framed within the postmodern representation of the city, under a complex perspective that steers clear of the typical nineteenth-century exoticism.