İLHAN BERK’İ PSİKOCOĞRAFYA ÜZERİNDEN OKUMAK : PERA VE GALATA / READİNG İLHAN BERK THROUGH PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY: PERA AND GALATA

İlhan Berk observed and recorded the streets that become indistinct on the city map with a flanörish attitude within the borders of psychogeography thanks to his poet and painter identity. In one sense, he determined the damage that the social change accompanied by the change in the topographical structure has made or will make on the urban texture. He established a link between daily life perspectives about the life of the ordinary human being that is consumed by the metropolitan life emerged related to modernism and poetry of the city in geometric space and he reminded the poetry and the city to modern individual that were lost by her/his alienation. Pera and Galata are neighborhoods that contain the traces of all political and social handovers occurred throughout the history and daily life details that cannot find their expressions on the metropolitan map. İlhan Berk transferred to his readers both Pera and Galata's topographical past and their present with his observer traveler attitude and converted the city in his mind ant the transforming city into poetry. In this work, the shaping of İlhan Berk's prose poetry on the psychogeography axis and the loss of daily life of ordinary human being related to the topographical change on the imagination of Pera and Galata and poets' expression will be handled.