The Time Regulation Institute

The Time Regulation Institute

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar


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'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the late afternoon call to prayer - my aunt sprang briskly back to life.' 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. From his youth, dismantling timepieces while his family fell apart, to his later years at the scandal-hit Time Regulation Institute, Hayri's absurdist misadventures play out as a brilliant allegory of the collision between East and West, tradition and modernity. Translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe With an Introduction by Pankaj Mishra 'Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely...Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own.' Martin Riker, The New York Times Book Review


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'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the late afternoon call to prayer - my aunt sprang briskly back to life.' 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. From his youth, dismantling timepieces while his family fell apart, to his later years at the scandal-hit Time Regulation Institute, Hayri's absurdist misadventures play out as a brilliant allegory of the collision between East and West, tradition and modernity. Translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe With an Introduction by Pankaj Mishra 'Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely...Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own.' Martin Riker, The New York Times Book Review



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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament (the Grand...


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