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The Time Regulation Institute (Paperback)
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The Time Regulation Institute (Paperback)
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List price R577
Loot Price R516
Discovery Miles 5 160
You Save R61 (11%)
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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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