Abstract
The journeys to the East have generated a rich imagery in Western culture. Juan Goytisolo’s Ottoman Istanbul addresses this issue introducing the city and its past to the contemporary European visitor. He reviews the cliches collected by travelers and shows us how the city has been used in many cases as a scapegoat for personal fears. This paper aims to detect and analyze the intertextual strategies used by Goytisolo to enrich typical views of the city and to connect the Ottoman world to the contemporary one. The author looks for testimonies that provide us with different points of view, such as the letters of Lady Montagu or quotations from A Trip to Turkey. On the other hand, he compares the Oriental and Western worlds. Traveling to Istanbul thus becomes a way to approach this exotic universe, but also a self revealing experience.
Highlights
El artículo se propone detectar y analizar las estrategias intertextuales que Goytisolo emplea para enriquecer la visión tópica de la ciudad y conectar el mundo otomano con el contemporáneo
Title: Juan Goytisolo’s Ottoman Istambul: personal and external perceptions Abstract The journeys to the East have generated a rich imagery in Western culture
This paper aims to detect and analyze the intertextual strategies used by Goytisolo to enrich typical views of the city and to connect the Ottoman world to the contemporary one
Summary
Title: Juan Goytisolo’s Ottoman Istambul: personal and external perceptions Abstract The journeys to the East have generated a rich imagery in Western culture. En Estambul Otomano, Juan Goytisolo aborda el tema acercando la ciudad y su pasado al visitante europeo contemporáneo. Revisa los tópicos recogidos por los viajeros y nos muestra cómo, en muchos casos, se buscó en la ciudad una cabeza de turco en la que expiar algunos de los miedos propios.
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