Author/Authors :
YAĞLI, Ali Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi (OMÜ) - Eğitim Fakültesi - Yabancı Diller Bölümü, Fransız Dili Eğitimi ABD, Turkey
Abstract :
Corto Maltese is an important and popular hero that Hugo Pratt brought into the graphic novel world. A series of Corto’s novels in which the adventures of Corto are narrated has been translated into many languages. Turkish bookstore, Dost, by publishing these series of novels of Corto, offered Turkish readers a nice service. As some of the events in The Golden House of Samarkand took place in some of the cities in the last borders of the Ottoman Empire, this graphic novel has attracted more attention of the Turkish readers. Corto and his freind, Rasputin, live exiting adventures in the provinces such as Tarsus, Adana, Van. The story begins in Rohodes with the discovery of the manuscript of Great Kyrus King of Persia by Corto which mentioned the treasure at the dome of the Kavaklı Mosque. Corto and his friend, Rasputin, have to reach Samarkand to find the secret treasure. When they were following up the treasure, they met Enver Pacha in the battlefield. Enver Pacha, for realizing the Turanian ideal, was fighting against the Russian Bolsheviks in The Caucasus. Corto and Rasputin witness these fights. We can see Hugo Pratt’s Oriantalist narrative point of view in some of the events. It seems Corto’s adventure’s reflect some of the real adventures experienced by Hugo Pratt to the readers. Corto and Rasputin, during the story, couldn’t reach the treasure which they dreamed of. Suat Yalaz, a Turkish master of graphic novel, also told dramatically the life and adventures of Enver Pacha in his masterpiece, The Legend of Enver Pacha.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Graphic Novel , Corto Maltese , Hugo Pratt , Enver Pacha
