Hüzün - a portrait of Istanbul from melancholy music meaning Watch Video
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Description: Hüzün is the Turkish word for melancholy. In his book Istanbul, Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk notes that “The hüzün of Istanbul is not just the mood evoked by its music and its poetry, it is a way of looking at life that implicates us all, not only a spiritual state but a state of mind that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating.” Western romantics tend to think of melancholy as the affliction of the individual, whereas Pamuk reveals – and revels in – the collecti
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