He has one foot on each bank, not those of the Seine (though…), but of the Bosphorus.
In other words, one foot in the East, the other in the West.
This is one of the peculiarities of Istanbulites: having their hearts attached to both Europe and Asia.
Although a Swiss citizen, Metin Arditi has never forgotten his childhood spent along the Golden Horn.
So much so that he wished to become the patron of the Constantinople Prize, a new literary distinction whose purpose is to reward each year a writer who invites, through his work, to build bridges between the civilizations of the East and the Where is.
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"We are from the country of his childhood,"
said François Mitterrand, who had read Jacques Chardonne a lot.
A way of saying that nostalgia is a homeland, but also that opposites can come together and form a successful equation.
For a long time, the city of Istanbul held to the ideal formula, based on a sort of trinomial, with the pillars of the three revealed religions.
Byzantium, Constantinople…
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