Metin Arditi: “Writing is listening to your characters”
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Metin Arditi left Istanbul and the Bosphorus as a child. He returns to them through his trilogy.
View from a boat cruise on the strait, October 12, 2022. Martin Bertrand / HANS LUCAS
In the first volume of his "Constantinople trilogy," published in March, the Turkish-born novelist reconnects with his character Gülgül, a sports teacher in a Swiss school, whose childhood and extraordinary destiny he imagines, between the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Atatürk.
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I subscribeThree tributaries for a long novel. Or rather a trilogy, the first part of which was released in March, The Oriental Dancer (1), makes for a delightful summer read. Three tributaries, and first of all, the attachment Metin Arditi has to Gülgül, born in 2009 in Loin des bras in the guise of a sports teacher attached to a school in Lausanne. A character imagined as secondary and who, "by himself", would gain stature, reappear in later books and then establish himself here as the keystone of a gripping story, set a century ago on the banks of the Bosphorus.
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