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Hamdi Tanpinar, Ahmet (2013) The time regulation institute. London: Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780143106739 (In Press)
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Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Book | ||||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Penguin Classics | ||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||||||||||
ISBN: | 9780143106739 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | 31 December 2013 | ||||||||||||
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Number of Pages: | 464 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
Description: | Novel translated by Alexander Dawe and Maureen Freely |
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