Reflections of Tartarin of Tarascon in Araba Sevdası in the Context of Impressionism

Araba Sevdası, written by Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem and one of the most important novels in Ottoman-Turkish literature, criticises “European snob type” who despises his own culture desires everything Western. Based on Alphonse Daudet’s impressions trip to Algeria 1861, Tartarin Tarascon “Provencal type Southern France” is overly fond exotic looks quite comical Eastern clothes. Both Ekrem’s protagonists are alienated from their identities caricatured with incompatible, ridiculous, exaggerated aspects. himself states that these two texts, which have parallel aspects, similar each other, especially terms style. This article argues stylistic similarities between texts based methods techniques impressionist painters exemplifies