The Time Regulation Institute. The time regulation institute by ahmet hamdi tanpınar. 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.
Ahmet hamdi tanpınar tanpinar belongs to a generation of turkish authors that grew up in the ottoman empire and lived through the first decades of modern turkey with its kemalist reforms that deeply affected every aspect of life. It is generally regarded as the pinnacle of ahmet hamdi tanpinars literary career. The time regulation institute originally written in 1962 but currently enjoying a renaissance due to a fresh english language translation by maureen freely and alexander dawe is a biting satire of the rapid modernisation and subsequent bureaucratic systems that accompanied the arrival of the turkish republic in the early twentieth century.
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Ahmet hamdi tanpınar tanpinar belongs to a generation of turkish authors that grew up in the ottoman empire and lived through the first decades of modern turkey with its kemalist reforms that deeply affected every aspect of life. Ramiz is his doctor and friend. Its narrator hayri irdal is an irrepressably arch ridiculous figure who recognizes his own maladaption to modern life while remaining helpless to do anything about it. This is the first turkish book to be translated into.