Krık Gün Kırk Gece - Metin AND

Ottoman Weddings, Festivals, and ProcessionsFor Metin And, who dedicated and spent a lifetime examining almost every genre of Turkish performing arts, Ottoman festivals were like a vast, expansive field of discovery. He presented the work he continuously developed starting from the 1950s by penning articles and books; had he been able to live a little longer and reflect his new discoveries and findings, the subject would have turned into a true "festival ground."While "Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a beautiful book title, it also carries traces of fairy tales, the peaks of oral culture. The weddings of fairy tale heroes, whose details are unknown, and their journeys that do not reveal the secret of the hardships endured, last for forty days and forty nights; enriched by the power of fairy tales that feel like yesterday when looked back upon and are told as if not even an inch of progress has been made, these festivities also tell us a true story of civilization.In "Forty Days and Forty Nights," And’s findings, interpretations, and "early" and "guiding" suggestions—looking at Ottoman festivals as an artistic synthesis—also contain well-intentioned references for art history. In this branch of the performing arts, there are the "paths" he blazed and the "traces" he left behind with extraordinary effort and intuition at the beginning and middle of the road to the goal.