The Time Regulation Institute / Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar ; translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe ; introduction by Pankaj Mishra.
2013
PL248.T234 S19513 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
The Time Regulation Institute / Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar ; translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe ; introduction by Pankaj Mishra.
Author
Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi.
Uniform Title
Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü. English
ISBN
9780143106739 paperback
0143106732 paperback
0143106732 paperback
Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2013
Language
English
Description
xxviii, 401 pages ; 20 cm.
Call Number
PL248.T234 S19513 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
894/.3533
Summary
" A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation. Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first publication, The Time Regulation Institute is an antic, freewheeling send-up of the modern bureaucratic state. At its center is Hayri Irdal, an infectiously charming antihero who becomes entangled with an eccentric cast of characters-a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman Empire, a "clock whisperer"-at the Time Regulation Institute, a vast organization that employs a hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing all the clocks in Turkey to Western time. Recounted in sessions with his psychoanalyst, the story of Hayri Irdal's absurdist misadventures plays out as a brilliant allegory of the collision of tradition and modernity, of East and West, infused with a poignant blend of hope for the promise of modernity and nostalgia for a simpler time"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (page xxv).
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Penguin classics
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