The Time Regulation Institute (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Translators:	Alexander Dawe • Maureen Freely
Introduction by:	Pankaj Mishra
Dimensions:	196 x 127 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / With dust jacket
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-310673-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	0-14-310673-2
Barcode:	9780143106739

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