The Time Regulation Institute

Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi

ISBN 10: 0143106732 / ISBN 13: 9780143106739

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2014

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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 the future and nostalgia for a simpler time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) is considered one of the most significant Turkish novelists of the twentieth century. Also a poet, short-story writer, essayist, literary historian, and professor, he created a unique cultural universe in his work, combining a European literary voice with the Ottoman sensibilities of the Near East.

Maureen Freely (translator) is the principal translator of Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize–winning Turkish novelist. She lives in England.

Alexander Dawe (translator) is an American translator of French and Turkish. He lives in Istanbul.

Pankaj Mishra (introducer) is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose writing appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books. He was born in North India and now lives in London.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Time Regulation Institute
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New