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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

    June 23, 1901 – January 24, 1962

    Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar stands as a pivotal figure in modern Turkish literature, celebrated for his profound novels and essays. He masterfully synthesized Eastern and Western cultural influences, weaving classical Turkish music and dreamscapes into his poetry. His work delves into psychological complexities, historical currents, and the challenges of modernization, exploring the intricate connections between society and the individual, as well as the philosophical dimensions of time. Through narratives like "The Time Regulation Institute," he offers an ironic critique of bureaucracy and societal shifts, portraying the individual's struggle to adapt to contemporary life.

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    Mahur Beste
    The Time Regulation Institute
    • The Time Regulation Institute

      • 401 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      4.4(890)Add rating

      " A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization, in its first-ever English translation. Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after its first publication, The Time Regulation Institute is an antic, freewheeling send-up of the modern bureaucratic state. At its center is Hayri Irdal, an infectiously charming antihero who becomes entangled with an eccentric cast of characters-a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman Empire, a "clock whisperer"-at the Time Regulation Institute, a vast organization that employs a hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing all the clocks in Turkey to Western time. Recounted in sessions with his psychoanalyst, the story of Hayri Irdal's absurdist misadventures plays out as a brilliant allegory of the collision of tradition and modernity, of East and West, infused with a poignant blend of hope for the promise of modernity and nostalgia for a simpler time"--

      The Time Regulation Institute
    • Mahur Beste

      • 175 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
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      Mahur Beste'de Tanpınar'ın Huzur ve Sahnenin Dışındakiler adlı romanlarında önemli bir motif olan "Mahur Beste" teması önemli yer tutar. Mahur beste, acı bir aşk hikayesinin klasik musiki kalıplarıyla soyutlanmasıdır. Tanpınar, klasik Türk musikisini medeniyetimizin özlü bir yansıması olarak kabul eder. Mahur Beste'de Tanpınar'ın diğer eserlerinde de görülen medeniyet meselesi büyük bir ağırlıkla ele alınır. Mahur Beste, Tanzimat sonrasında toplum hayatımızın her yönüne yansıyan değişim ve başkalaşımın yansıtıldığı ve her fırsatta tartışıldığı bir roman özelliğindedir.

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    • Seelenfrieden

      • 568 pages
      • 20 hours of reading
      3.7(13)Add rating

      Der junge Historiker Mümtaz hat eine geradezu osmotische Beziehung zu der alten, vom Verfall bedrohten Sultansmetropole: zu ihren Bauwerken, zum Basar voller rätselhafter Dinge, zur Poesie, zur klassischen Musik. Als er Nuran kennenlernt, erwacht in dieser Liebe einen Sommer lang der Zauber der alten osmanischen Kultur zu neuem Leben. Bis eines Tages der todkranke Suat, Studiengefährte und Rivale von Mümtaz, auftaucht und diese Liebe zerstört. »Tanpinars Werk ist aus der türkischen Gegenwartsliteratur nicht wegzudenken. Nicht nur Linksintellektuelle, Modernisten und am Westen ausgerichtete Denker, sondern auch Konservative, Traditionalisten und Nationalisten räumen ihm diesen Status ein und berufen sich gerne und oft auf Tanpinars Renommée und Ansehen. Seine Auseinandersetzung mit der alten würdevoll-beschaulichen osmanischen Kultur einerseits und sein Aufgreifen moderner Tendenzen der europäischen Literatur andererseits machen ihn zu einer faszinierenden Persönlichkeit.« Orhan Pamuk

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