NEDİM GÜRSEL İÇİN DRAMATİK BİR OKUMA Hatırla Barbara Bir “Tür” Şiir-Tiyatro İçin Bir Empati Denemesi

Abstract

Tuğrul İnal uses the Empathy method to analyse Nedim Gürsel’s Hatırla Barbara (2009) acompilation of the author’s memoires of France in the 1992-2008 period. The novel is a reflectionand a projection of the authors 40 year long adventures in France. The novel, in places a lyricalmemoire, takes the reader to the country of Baudelarie. Nedim Gürsel’s lyrical style articulates howhe discovers France in the way one would discover a woman’s body, slowly, sometimes in the darkthrough touch, sometimes in blinding sunlight and always with passion. İnal, concentrating on thesection entitled ‘Besançon’da Zaman’ (Time in Besançon) in which the writer is in the search forHeaven Lost, mounts the narrative as a theatrical monologue on the lines of ‘to be or not to be’ interms of perceptions of memories, the past, reality and the present.