The Time Regulation Institute

novel by Tanpınar
Also known as: “Saatleri ayarlama enstitüsü”

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Turkish literature

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    In Turkish literature: Modern Turkish literature

    …published in book form 1961; The Time Regulation Institute), the most complex novel written in Turkish until the 1980s and ’90s, is his most important. It is the autobiography of Hayri Irdal, a poorly educated petit bourgeois born in Istanbul in the 1890s. He follows charlatans of various types until…

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