Yahya Kemal: Paris'ten gazel söyleyerek dönen şair

Abstract

This work aims at qualifying a widely held idea, namely that young Yahya Kemal Beyath's stay in Paris, from 1903 to 19012, had a great impact on his art. We argue that his stay had no other effect than reinforcing his previous view of the world. In order to defend that thesis, we will base our argument on his own words and writings, on the remarkable monograph of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and the views of two researchers, Enis Batur and Hasan Bülent Kahraman. At the theoretical level, we will use the concept of aesthetics of reception of Hans-Georg Gadamer and particularly of Hans Robert Jauss.