EAN: 9780143106739

THE TIME REGULATION INSTITUTE - AHMET HAMDI TAN...

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. For more than seventy years 
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