The Time Regulation Institute by Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi

The Time Regulation Institute (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143106739)

Author: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Product Type: Books
Format: Paperback
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The Time Regulation Institute by Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi

The Time Regulation Institute

$30.00
The Time Regulation Institute by Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi

The Time Regulation Institute

$30.00
Format: Paperback
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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 modernity and nostalgia for a simpler time"--

Author: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
ISBN-10: 0143106732
ISBN-13: 9780143106739
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2014
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2013
Publishers Weekly 10/21/2013
New York Times Book Review 01/05/2014 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 01/12/2014 pg. 22
By Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
By Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
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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.

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