Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) was a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, literary historian, and professor. He is considered one of the most significant Turkish novelists of the 20th century. Deeply influenced by Valery and Bergson, he created a unique cultural universe in his work, bringing together a European literary voice and the sensibilities of the East.
One of the greatest and most overlooked novels of the twentieth century, by an author championed by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, The Time Regulation Institute appears here in English for the first time-more than fifty years after its original publication in Turkish. This is the story of the misadventures of Hayri Irdals, an unforgettable antihero who, along with an eccentric cast of characters (a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman empire, the "life-artist" Halit), founds The Time Regulation Institute. The institute's quixotic quest: to make sure all the clocks in Turkey are set to Western time. Thus begins a brilliant satire about the calamitous arrival of Western and corporate values in tradition-bound Turkey. An uproarious tragicomedy that is still startlingly relevant, The Time Regulation Institute illuminates the collision of East and West, tradition and modernity, that has been playing out in Turkey since the early twentieth century.
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圖書標籤: 土耳其 小說 英文原著 現代化 文學 長篇小說 時間調控學院 外國文學
Pankaj Mishra 的序言輕而易舉地描繪齣瞭小說中西方現代社會的官僚主義牢籠,所以唐帕納爾纔會被視為一位傷感的保守主義者,與無情的凱末爾主義者針鋒相對。但Mishra卻很少提及唐帕納爾的小說跟精神生活、時間哲學、現代機械、物質文化之間微妙的互動。好歹唐帕納爾熟讀柏格森,再想想如今標準化時間在現代化的伊斯蘭社會中所扮演的作用(封齋和禮拜),私人的時間和集約的時間之間如何妥協也可以是小說的重要主題。
評分20190225 HK. istanbul pickup. bureaucracy and human intricacies explained yet again with innovation and quirk. 1984 on a community and enterprise level. bravo for its comments on realist, success, freedom and truth.
評分20190225 HK. istanbul pickup. bureaucracy and human intricacies explained yet again with innovation and quirk. 1984 on a community and enterprise level. bravo for its comments on realist, success, freedom and truth.
評分可能是共和國時期最重要,也是最傑齣的文學作品,雖然中間有一部分有些無聊
評分不愧是讓@manchild 坐過站的書,實在好看。某種意義上以現代性/bureaucracy 為主題的傅科擺變奏。Pure cynicism everywhere.
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