COFFEE AND LITERATURE
COFFEE AND MUSIC
COFFEE AND PAINTING
Yahya Kemal had enrolled in the "Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques". In fact, the whole Quartier was like an open, free university. Conversations about art and literature could be heard everywhere, as if they were snacks served with the coffee. Literary plays were performed in almost every theatre, almost every newspaper printed literary leading articles, there were papers devoted to literature, theatre and art, and many famous writers held literary conferences. Almost every coffeehouse had a famous writer or artist as a regular customer; at almost all of them, the gathering of specific customers felt like academic symposia.
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