عنوان

The Time Regulation Institute /

(Number (ISBN

0143106732

(Number (ISBN

9780143106739

Title Proper

The Time Regulation Institute /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar ; translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe ; introduction by Pankaj Mishra.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Penguin Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxviii, 401 pages ;

Dimensions

20 cm.

Series Title

Penguin classics

Text of Note

Translated from the Turkish.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-401).

Text of Note

Great expectations -- Little truths -- Toward dawn -- Every season has an end.

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Text of Note

"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 modernity and nostalgia for a simpler time"--

General Material Designation

Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

FICTION / Classics.

FICTION / Literary.

FICTION-- Classics.

FICTION-- Literary.

Turkey, Fiction.

Turkey.

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7

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

System Code

Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi.

Dawe, Alexander

Freely, Maureen,1952-

Date of Transaction

20200822090322.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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