Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (.ePUB)
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Time Regulation Institute (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Punkaj Mishra (Introduction), Maureen Freely & Alexander Dawe (Translators)
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Overview: In this fictional memoir of Hayri Irdal – troublesome boy, workshy man and feckless husband – life is examined in all its double-crossing, chaotic, disastrous glory.
One of the greatest and most overlooked novels of the twentieth century, by an author championed by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, The Time Regulation Institute appears here in English for the first time-more than fifty years after its original publication in Turkish.
This is the story of the misadventures of Hayri Irdals, an unforgettable antihero who, along with an eccentric cast of characters (a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman empire, the “life-artist” Halit), founds The Time Regulation Institute. The institute’s quixotic quest: to make sure all the clocks in Turkey are set to Western time. Thus begins a brilliant satire about the calamitous arrival of Western and corporate values in tradition-bound Turkey.
An uproarious tragicomedy that is still startlingly relevant, The Time Regulation Institute illuminates the collision of East and West, tradition and modernity, that has been playing out in Turkey since the early twentieth century.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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