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"The real subject of Bes Sehir (Five Cities) is the craving we foster for the new, and our nostalgic regret for what is lost to our lives. At first sight the two emotions might seem to be at odds with one another but can be reconciled in the one word 'love'. The cities chosen by…
In 'Five Cities' ('Beş Şehir'), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar focuses on cities significant in Anatolian history and his own emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, part poetic meditation on time and memory, 'Five Cities' is Proustian in style with a tension between a backward-…