The Time Regulation Institute
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 organi…
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Weitere Autoren: Dawe, Alexander / Freely, Maureen / Mishra, Pankaj
- ISBN: 978-0-14-310673-9
- EAN: 9780143106739
- Produktnummer: 12031828
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) is considered one of the most significant Turkish novelists of the twentieth century. Also a poet, short-story writer, essayist, literary historian, and professor, he created a unique cultural universe in his work, combining a European literary voice with the Ottoman sensibilities of the Near East.
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