Tabs & Twists
The Time Regulation Institute
Narrated by Hayri İrdal, an ironic novel satirizing the growing pains of a society caught between East and West as it modernizes.
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Subgenre
- Satire
- Setting / Period
- Early Republican TurkeyIstanbul
- Tone
- Ironic
- Publisher
- Dergâh Yayınları
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 382
- Language
- Turkish
Review
Thanks to a cunning entrepreneur named Halit Ayarcı, Hayri İrdal rises from an ordinary, unsuccessful life to run an absurd institution: the Time Regulation Institute.
With subtle irony, Tanpınar writes about bureaucracy, imitative modernization and our troubled relationship with time.
