La littérature grecque contemporaine traduite en turc : un capital de sympathie

Abstract

Until the end of World War 1 and except for a some classics, Greek literature did not enjoy the ottoman authorities efforts of translation. The translation movement is due to the Republican political and ideological will to use Greek literature as a means of bringing closer the two peoples, the Turkish and the Greek one. From 1933 the Varlık review has acted as a pioneer in this field, but Turkey owes his true revolution in translation to the minister of Education Hasan Ali Yücel (1897-1961). As an ardent defender of classic Greek literature and philosophy, Yücel has not only had almost all the main texts from the Hellenistic period translated but has also had the Tercüme Dergisi (Review Translation) brought out where many Greek authors have been introduced to Turkish readers before great contemporary poets such as Kavafis, Seferis, Kazantzakis, Elytis, Ritsos and many more world known beeing prolifically translated from the 60’s. From 1977, the Marenostrum collection campaigned for the Greek literature of the 20’s and 30’s to be known. In all possibility today Greek literature doesn’t need any longer to “prouve” anything else than its literary value: Mourselas, is coming into being.

Keywords

• Greece
• Turkey
• Pontus
• twentieth century
• Myrivilis Stratis (1890-1969)
• Greek literature