“Satire with the swarm of life”
“Claes Wahlin reading a celebrated Turkish writer,”
“the Difficulty with assessing the resonance of a Turkish novel has simply depends on the lack of translations. Orhan Pamuk has appointed Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar to modern Turkey’s most significant authors, a review that for a western reader without knowledge in Turkish requires a kind of reconstruction.”
“Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) was a poet, novelist, and academician. He grew up during the ottoman empire and, under Ataturk’s modernisation of Turkey during the 1900-century first decades. “
“Tanpinar himself was for some years member of parliament and witness the various adjustments from the one-party system to the multiparty system after Atatürk’s death in 1938.”
“It is this envåldshärskares moderniseringsreformer which is the backdrop to the comical and hilarious nostalgic novel the Institute for the timing of all out. Among all the reforms that Atatürk allowed to carry (secularization, fez-ban, the transition to the gregorian calendar) heard the construction of a series of belfries across the country. “
“By tradition, had the turks no need of a western, highly regulated time. It was enough to böneutropen and the sun’s movements. Atatürk wanted to increase the effectiveness of the western way, dividing up the day between work and leisure time and thus make a reality of the motto ” time is money.”
“Hayri Irdal, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, is something of a man without qualities. Power of existence is minimal, he is a victim of circumstances, both in terms of employment and family life. He has no money, is at loggerheads with their relatives and expels a large part of their days in cafes. “
“Half the book is about this rather failed, but nevertheless förnöjsamma existence. It is a swarm of life, various intrigue, lost legacy, and even a funeral that time until the burial, before the corpse turns out still live.”
“Hayri Irdal meets as a chance Halit Ayarci, a jack of all trades of the kind we today would call a groomer without any morals. Irdals early founded interest in movement comes to its right. Ayarci mean that all the bells in the country suffer from not being synced. Together founded the Institute for the timing of all out, a company which offers to ensure that every citizen’s watch shows the same time as all the others.”
“of course It is an absurd projects that can not possibly succeed, because there is no norm. Miss Out of the shows up towards the end and put the company in bankruptcy. “
“the Way there is lined with a pseudoverksamhet that operates with all that red tape is called. The satire, which is written in Jonathan Swift’s spirit, is portrayed as the genre provides the kind of seriousness of the narrator, which means that it is only the reader who notes the absurdity.nn”
“But it is not just a criticism of Atatürk’s western-inspired modernization that we encounter. At the same time depicted the often elusive of the suffering of so-called ordinary people in a utvecklingssamhälle. All these unnamed where Hayri Irdal is just one of the thousands who are forced to change their entrenched, tradition-rich and, if poor, after all, harmonious life. ”In search of the time that the transfer” would thus be a suitable alternative title for the novel.”
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“Trans. Claire B. Creates”
