From the imagined city to the city written:
urban space in the narrative of the book Constantinopla (1889).
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21680/1984-817X.2020v16n01ID20451Keywords:
Orient, Constantinople, Travel narrativesAbstract
The book Constantinople, by the Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis(1846-1908), deals with the writer journey to the capital of the Ottoman Empire in 1874 and is inserted in a singular theme in the literary field from the eighteenth century: travel books about the East. This article aims to analyze how the writer tried to apprehend in his travel narrative the capital of Ottoman Empire and the difficulties that the narrative presents to portray the city. One of these problems lies in the fact that the city is organized, in its urban planning and urban life, differently from modern European parameters; another difficulty lies in the fact that the narrator can not separate his description from the innumerable fanciful readings on the East that the author had made before arrive the city.
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