ABSTRACT Drawing on Tanpınar’s journal, letters and academic writings, this article challenges the established reading of his works as integrating the Ottoman past into the modern present, and argues that he emerges as a self-orientalist in his identification with a notion of the rational Western intellectual that molds his perception of the past as well as of the East. This results in Tanpınar’s treatment of the Ottoman past, particularly in Huzur (A Mind at Peace) (1949) as a mystified and mystifying entity that can be integrated into modern life only as an object of pleasure—not of intellect. While his protagonists’ longing for the past seem to hold the promise of creating continuity between traditions, their attitude in fact amounts only to coveting the past as an object—a desire to possess the past and to become its master through putting it outside of time and reason, thereby creating a beautiful shelter from the tensions of modernization.

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作为客体的过去：东方主义的幻想

摘要 本文借鉴了坦皮纳尔的日记、信件和学术著作，挑战了将奥斯曼帝国的过去与现代结合起来的对他作品的既定解读，并认为他在认同理性西方的观念中成为了一个自我东方主义者。塑造他对过去和东方的看法的知识分子。这导致 Tanpınar 将奥斯曼帝国的过去，特别是在 Huzur（和平的心灵）（1949）中视为一个神秘而神秘的实体，它只能作为快乐的对象而不是智力的对象融入现代生活。虽然他的主人公对过去的渴望似乎有望在传统之间创造连续性，