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020 $a9780143106739 (pbk.)
020 $a0143106732 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aPL248.T234$bS19513 2013
082 00 $a894/.3533$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC004000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aTanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi.
240 10 $aSaatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe Time Regulation Institute /$cAhmet Hamdi Tanpinar ; translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe ; introduction by Pankaj Mishra.
264 1 $aNew York, New York :$bPenguin Books,$c2013.
300 $axix, 401 pages ;$c20 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aPenguin classics
500 $aTranslated from the Turkish.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 397-401).
520 $a" A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation. Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first publication, The Time Regulation Institute is an antic, freewheeling send-up of the modern bureaucratic state. At its center is Hayri Irdal, an infectiously charming antihero who becomes entangled with an eccentric cast of characters-a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman Empire, a "clock whisperer"-at the Time Regulation Institute, a vast organization that employs a hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing all the clocks in Turkey to Western time. Recounted in sessions with his psychoanalyst, the story of Hayri Irdal's absurdist misadventures plays out as a brilliant allegory of the collision of tradition and modernity, of East and West, infused with a poignant blend of hope for the promise of modernity and nostalgia for a simpler time"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Classics.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aFreely, Maureen,$d1952-$etranslator.
700 1 $aDawe, Alexander,$etranslator.
856 42 $3Cover image$uftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9780143106739.jpg