Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) was a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, literary historian, and professor. He is considered one of the most significant Turkish novelists of the 20th century. Deeply influenced by Valery and Bergson, he created a unique cultural universe in his work, bringing together a European literary voice and the sensibilities of the East.
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.
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20190225 HK. istanbul pickup. bureaucracy and human intricacies explained yet again with innovation and quirk. 1984 on a community and enterprise level. bravo for its comments on realist, success, freedom and truth.
评分20190225 HK. istanbul pickup. bureaucracy and human intricacies explained yet again with innovation and quirk. 1984 on a community and enterprise level. bravo for its comments on realist, success, freedom and truth.
评分20190225 HK. istanbul pickup. bureaucracy and human intricacies explained yet again with innovation and quirk. 1984 on a community and enterprise level. bravo for its comments on realist, success, freedom and truth.
评分可能是共和国时期最重要,也是最杰出的文学作品,虽然中间有一部分有些无聊
评分可能是共和国时期最重要,也是最杰出的文学作品,虽然中间有一部分有些无聊
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