ISTANBUL – THE PALIMPSESTIC CITY IN CORNELIA GOLNA’S CITY OF MAN’S DESIRE AND ANTONIO GALA’S THE TURKISH PASSION
ISTANBUL – THE PALIMPSESTIC CITY IN CORNELIA GOLNA’S CITY OF MAN’S DESIRE AND ANTONIO GALA’S THE TURKISH PASSION

Summary/Abstract: "To a certain extent, the city can be said to have shaped people’s cultural destiny ever since the appearance of works such as Plato’s Republic and Augustine’s City of God. Although some authors maintain that the focus of such ancient texts is not the space itself, but its relevance to the ‘pursuit’ of a good life (Lehan 1998:6), the fact that the city is indeed depicted as a locus of development and self-development argues for its relevance. Urban historians, such as Weber, Simmel but most importantly, Durkehim, have claimed that each and every city can create a state of mind, a set of “established norms that regulated behaviour” and that such “norms were internalized as part of the individual’s personality” (Lehan 1998:7). "[..]

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