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Book Title
Time Regulation Institute
Publication Name
The Time Regulation Institute
Title
The Time Regulation Institute
Author
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Translator
Alexander Dawe
Contributor
Alexander Dawe (Translated by)
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0143106732
EAN
9780143106739
ISBN
9780143106739
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Classics, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Release Year
2014
Release Date
07/01/2014
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
4.9 in
Item Weight
12.9 Oz
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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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, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143106732
ISBN-13
9780143106739
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110996470

Product Key Features

Book Title
Time Regulation Institute
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Classics, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
12.9 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
4.9 in

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Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Review, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "This excellent book . . . is before all else a first-rate comic novel. . . . Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely. For beyond the historical relevance, beyond the comic esprit, Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own, offering long-distance commiseration to anyone whose life is twisted around schedules and deadlines-pretty much everyone, in other words-provided you can find the time to read it." - The New York Times Book Review "Ingeniously satirical and hauntingly philosophical . . . Bracingly original . . . [A] superb translation." - The Wall Street Journal   "A modernist novel par excellence: absurdist, obsessive, funny, dark . . . An excellent book about the ­terrible struggle to impose order onto inner and outer states." - New York magazine "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Spellbinding . . . A gem . . . A very funny novel, both in design and line by line . . . As compelling as a lucid dream . . . Its publication feels like a victory. . . . Both novel and author are undeniable stars and deserve, one feels, to have finally reached the world stage, showcased in a spotlight as bright as Penguin Classics." - The National "One of the best comic novels of twentieth century in any language." - Guernica "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." - Literary Review "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Reviews, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "This excellent book . . . is before all else a first-rate comic novel. . . . Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely. For beyond the historical relevance, beyond the comic esprit, Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own, offering long-distance commiseration to anyone whose life is twisted around schedules and deadlines-pretty much everyone, in other words-provided you can find the time to read it." - The New York Times Book Review "Ingeniously satirical and hauntingly philosophical . . . Bracingly original . . . [A] superb translation." - The Wall Street Journal   "A modernist novel par excellence: absurdist, obsessive, funny, dark . . . An excellent book about the ­terrible struggle to impose order onto inner and outer states." - New York magazine "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Spellbinding . . . A gem . . . A very funny novel, both in design and line by line . . . As compelling as a lucid dream . . . Its publication feels like a victory. . . . Both novel and author are undeniable stars and deserve, one feels, to have finally reached the world stage, showcased in a spotlight as bright as Penguin Classics." - The National "One of the best comic novels of twentieth century in any language." - Guernica "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." - Literary Review "Hilarious . . . Richly imagined . . . A brilliant author . . . Like Proust, and Pamuk, Tanpinar opens doors to other books and ideas. . . . Tanpinar's prose . . . glows and echoes, and one never quite forgets the strange taste of his sentences after reading them. . . . [ The Time Regulation Institute is] perhaps the best Turkish novel of the 20th century alongside Orhan Pamuk's  The Black Book ." - PEN Atlas "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Reviews "Brilliantly comic . . . As you read  The Time Regulation Institute , you may have the impression that you are reading a nineteenth-century novel- . . . with dozens of characters, surprising sub-plots and revelations-in short, all the good stuff of those classic French, German, English and Russian classics. So now we can add a Turkish novel to the list. . . . Tanpinar's masterpiece [is] finally available in a glorious English translation." - Counterpunch, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "This excellent book . . . is before all else a first-rate comic novel. . . . Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely. For beyond the historical relevance, beyond the comic esprit, Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own, offering long-distance commiseration to anyone whose life is twisted around schedules and deadlines-pretty much everyone, in other words-provided you can find the time to read it." - The New York Times Book Review "Ingeniously satirical and hauntingly philosophical . . . Bracingly original . . . [A] superb translation." - The Wall Street Journal "A modernist novel par excellence: absurdist, obsessive, funny, dark . . . An excellent book about the ­terrible struggle to impose order onto inner and outer states." - New York magazine "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Spellbinding . . . A gem . . . A very funny novel, both in design and line by line . . . As compelling as a lucid dream . . . Its publication feels like a victory. . . . Both novel and author are undeniable stars and deserve, one feels, to have finally reached the world stage, showcased in a spotlight as bright as Penguin Classics." - The National "One of the best comic novels of the twentieth century in any language." - Guernica "Prepare to enjoy a voice you did not know existed. . . . [A] beguiling twentieth-century writer, [Tanpinar] wrote in the expansive, unhurried tempo of an earlier era-a little like Russia's Ivan Goncharov, author of Oblomov, but with more energy, art, and invention. . . . Tanpinar's multi-timbred prose [and his] luxuriant language and sensibility will envelop you. . . . Like Joseph Heller's Catch-22 or Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek's unfinished dark comedy, The Good Soldier Å vejk, The Time Regulation Institute defends the individual spirit-faulty and inconsistent as it may be-against the state that seeks to submerge it in burdensome, soulless duty. . . . Splendid." - Liesl Schillinger, The Barnes & Noble Review "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." - Literary Review "Hilarious . . . Richly imagined . . . A brilliant author . . . Like Proust, and Pamuk, Tanpinar opens doors to other books and ideas. . . . Tanpinar's prose . . . glows and echoes, and one never quite forgets the strange taste of his sentences after reading them. . . . [ The Time Regulation Institute is] perhaps the best Turkish novel of the 20th century alongside Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book ." - PEN Atlas "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Reviews "Brilliantly comic . . . As you read The Time Regulation Institute , you may have the impression that you are reading a nineteenth-century novel- . . . with dozens of characters, surprising sub-plots and revelations-in short, all the good stuff of those classic French, German, English and Russian classics. So now we can add a Turkish novel to the list. . . . Tanpinar's masterpiece [is] finally available in a glorious English translation." - Counterpunch, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "This excellent book . . . is before all else a first-rate comic novel. . . . Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely. For beyond the historical relevance, beyond the comic esprit, Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own, offering long-distance commiseration to anyone whose life is twisted around schedules and deadlines-pretty much everyone, in other words-provided you can find the time to read it." - The New York Times Book Review "Ingeniously satirical and hauntingly philosophical . . . Bracingly original . . . [A] superb translation." - The Wall Street Journal   "A modernist novel par excellence: absurdist, obsessive, funny, dark . . . An excellent book about the ­terrible struggle to impose order onto inner and outer states." - New York magazine "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." - Literary Review "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Reviews, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "This excellent book . . . is before all else a first-rate comic novel. . . . Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely. For beyond the historical relevance, beyond the comic esprit, Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own, offering long-distance commiseration to anyone whose life is twisted around schedules and deadlines-pretty much everyone, in other words-provided you can find the time to read it." - The New York Times Book Review "Ingeniously satirical and hauntingly philosophical . . . Bracingly original . . . [A] superb translation." - The Wall Street Journal   "A modernist novel par excellence: absurdist, obsessive, funny, dark . . . An excellent book about the ­terrible struggle to impose order onto inner and outer states." - New York magazine "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Spellbinding . . . A gem . . . A very funny novel, both in design and line by line . . . As compelling as a lucid dream . . . Its publication feels like a victory. . . . Both novel and author are undeniable stars and deserve, one feels, to have finally reached the world stage, showcased in a spotlight as bright as Penguin Classics." - The National "One of the best comic novels of twentieth century in any language." - Guernica "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." - Literary Review "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Reviews "Brilliantly comic . . . As you read  The Time Regulation Institute , you may have the impression that you are reading a nineteenth-century novel- . . . with dozens of characters, surprising sub-plots and revelations-in short, all the good stuff of those classic French, German, English and Russian classics. So now we can add a Turkish novel to the list. . . . Tanpinar's masterpiece [is] finally available in a glorious English translation." - Counterpunch, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "This excellent book . . . is before all else a first-rate comic novel. . . . Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely. For beyond the historical relevance, beyond the comic esprit, Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own, offering long-distance commiseration to anyone whose life is twisted around schedules and deadlines-pretty much everyone, in other words-provided you can find the time to read it." - The New York Times Book Review "Ingeniously satirical and hauntingly philosophical . . . Bracingly original . . . [A] superb translation." - The Wall Street Journal   "A modernist novel par excellence: absurdist, obsessive, funny, dark . . . An excellent book about the ­terrible struggle to impose order onto inner and outer states." - New York magazine "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Spellbinding . . . A gem . . . A very funny novel, both in design and line by line . . . As compelling as a lucid dream . . . Its publication feels like a victory. . . . Both novel and author are undeniable stars and deserve, one feels, to have finally reached the world stage, showcased in a spotlight as bright as Penguin Classics." - The National "One of the best comic novels of twentieth century in any language." - Guernica "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." - Literary Review "Brilliantly comic . . . As you read  The Time Regulation Institute , you may have the impression that you are reading a nineteenth-century novel- . . . with dozens of characters, surprising sub-plots and revelations-in short, all the good stuff of those classic French, German, English and Russian classics. So now we can add a Turkish novel to the list. . . . Tanpinar's masterpiece [is] finally available in a glorious English translation." - Counterpunch "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Reviews, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "This excellent book . . . is before all else a first-rate comic novel. . . . Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely. For beyond the historical relevance, beyond the comic esprit, Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own, offering long-distance commiseration to anyone whose life is twisted around schedules and deadlinespretty much everyone, in other wordsprovided you can find the time to read it." Martin Riker, The New York Times Book Review "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." Bookforum "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." Literary Review "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." Kirkus Review, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." - Literary Review "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Review, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Review, "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is undoubtedly the most remarkable author in modern Turkish literature. With The Time Regulation Institute, this great writer has created an allegorical masterpiece, which makes Turkey's attempts to westernize and its delayed modernity understandable in all its human ramifications." - Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "This excellent book . . . is before all else a first-rate comic novel. . . . Not only entertaining and substantial but also, for lack of a better word, timely. For beyond the historical relevance, beyond the comic esprit, Tanpinar's elaborate bittersweet sendup of Turkish culture over a half-century ago speaks perfectly clearly to our own, offering long-distance commiseration to anyone whose life is twisted around schedules and deadlines-pretty much everyone, in other words-provided you can find the time to read it." - The New York Times Book Review "Ingeniously satirical and hauntingly philosophical . . . Bracingly original . . . [A] superb translation." - The Wall Street Journal   "A modernist novel par excellence: absurdist, obsessive, funny, dark . . . An excellent book about the ­terrible struggle to impose order onto inner and outer states." - New York magazine "A truly pathbreaking novel, at once nostalgic and modernist, contemporary and out of its time." - Bookforum "Spellbinding . . . A gem . . . A very funny novel, both in design and line by line . . . As compelling as a lucid dream . . . Its publication feels like a victory. . . . Both novel and author are undeniable stars and deserve, one feels, to have finally reached the world stage, showcased in a spotlight as bright as Penguin Classics." - The National "One of the best comic novels of twentieth century in any language." - Guernica "Laceratingly comic . . . [A] brilliant satire on a modernizing bureaucracy." - Literary Review "Hilarious . . . Richly imagined . . . A brilliant author . . . Like Proust, and Pamuk, Tanpinar opens doors to other books and ideas. . . . Tanpinar's prose . . . glows and echoes, and one never quite forgets the strange taste of his sentences after reading them. . . . [The Time Regulation Institute is] perhaps the best Turkish novel of the 20th century alongside Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book." - PEN Atlas "Like all great satire, this book will make readers laugh and cringe in equal measure. . . . [It] seamlessly combines personal wit with political satire." - Kirkus Reviews "Brilliantly comic . . . As you read  The Time Regulation Institute , you may have the impression that you are reading a nineteenth-century novel- . . . with dozens of characters, surprising sub-plots and revelations-in short, all the good stuff of those classic French, German, English and Russian classics. So now we can add a Turkish novel to the list. . . . Tanpinar's masterpiece [is] finally available in a glorious English translation." - Counterpunch
Lccn
2013-033709
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
894/.3533
Lc Classification Number
Pl248.T234s19513
Copyright Date
2013

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