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- Title
FROM MASNAVI TO THEATRE: TWO STAGE PLAYS THAT DRAW UPON HÜSN Ü AŞK.
- Authors
GÜRANİ ARSLAN, Nur
- Abstract
Today it is taken for granted that every text produced exists in a state of interaction with every text that was written before it. Jean Genette, in his work Palimpsests, examines various dimensions of intertextual relations that are more 'official'. In this context Şeyh Galip's Hüsn ü Aşk - a work that he said was 'stolen' from Mevlana's Masnavi - constitutes a very interesting example. In this article, two plays that derive from Hüsn ü Aşk will be analyzed in terms of how they interact with Galip's masnavi, using Palimpsests as a guide. Turan Oflazoğlu's radio play Güzellik ile Aşk, described as an 'allegorical stage poem' follows the narrative and plot of Hüsn ü Aşk closely. It is mostly loyal to the masnavi but the text has been reduced to one twentieth the length of the hypotext. On the other hand, Kenan Işık's Aşk Hastası, in addition to Hüsn ü Aşk, draws on the poet's other poems and life story. The work takes place in present time, though the play also travels to Şeyh Galip's time with dramatic techniques. When we examine Oflazoğlu and Işık's works together we see that both authors have taken as their starting point the love story in Şeyh Galip's work, which can be read as both ethereal and worldly. Despite some differences in form, both works have conceptual points in common with their hypotexts while at the same time adapting them so as to appeal to the modern reader. As a result, no matter how one reads the two works - whether from the point of view of Sufism, of Nietzsche's concept of the overman, or of Bergson's theory of intuitionism - each one tell the same story of man's adventure towards maturity as Hüsn ü Aşk does.
- Subjects
GENETTE, Jean; MASNAVIS; COUPLETS; ETHICAL intuitionism; SUFISM
- Publication
Electronic Turkish Studies, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 12, p473
- ISSN
1308-2140
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7827/TurkishStudies.8412