About Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

The Time Regulation Institute"

The Time Regulation Institute, in which social criticism is discussed with a humorous register, has an allegoric structure. While the situations into which a society torn between the West and the East is satirized, the dominance of time over people’s lives and its mutually changing relationship is discussed. The novel consists of four parts: Great Expectations, Small Facts, Towards Morning and Each Season Has Its End… Time, flowing linearly, starts from the collapse of the Ottoman state, that is to say the reign of Abdulhamit; continues with the Tanzimat period and ends with including the first fifty years after the establishment of the Republic. Hayri, the main character, has two lives: his Eastern life before the Time Regulation Institute is founded and his Western life thereafter.

Rights • Albania: Fan Noli; Bosnian: Tugra; Brazil: Leya; Bulgaria: Trud; China: CIRP, 2008; Germany: Unionsverlag 2008; Iran: Kelag-E Sefid; Japan: Fujiwara; Lebanon: ASP; The Netherlands: Athenaeum; Norway: Gyldendal; US: Archipelago Books, 2008;