Constantinople – Chapter 14-tiivistelmä

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1. The narrator crosses a lively cemetery district and reflects that its everyday activity keeps the dead close to the living.
2. With his friend, he enters a garden theater and describes its illuminated screen and colored puppets.
3. Karagheuz and Hadji-aïvat compete for access to a beauty, deceive a young lover, and provoke a brawl with Persians.
4. A wedding farce presents an elaborate gift procession before Karagheuz discovers that his bride already bears another man’s child.
5. Returning through the cemetery at midnight, the narrator buys a French-speaking pastry seller’s remaining stock.
6. The next day, an uncensored performance at Top’Hané raises questions about obscenity, strict morals, and the puppet’s reported origin.

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