The Adventures of Telemachus
Telemachus, son of Ulysses, searches for his father, lost at sea after the Trojan War, accompanied by the goddess Minerva, disguised as a 'Mentor'. Fénelon's *The Adventures of Telemachus* transforms this search into a critique of absolute power, tyranny, and bad governance. At the end of the 17th century, on the threshold of modernity, Fénelon asks how to prevent man from becoming hell for man. He wrote this parable for the education of princes. The clergyman who dared to criticize the Sun King Louis XIV, takes his reader on a journey of modern virtue through the adventures of Telemachus. With Yusuf Kamil Pasha's first Turkish translation, Telemachus becomes a companion for the young generations of the Tanzimat era. Cemil Meriç says, "For Yusuf Kamil Pasha, Telemachus was a conquest": "The translator was taking wisdom from the West." In this era of new globalized inequalities, we rediscover Telemachus and set sail into the waters of possible utopias.
Author: Fénelon
Publisher: Dergah Publications
ISBN: 978-625-7660-70-9
Binding: Paperback
Language: Turkish
Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 cm
Number of Pages: 391
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