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History’s waiting room 2 mars 2015

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Review (UK) March 2, 2015, p. 20

Pankaj Mishra

The Time Regulation Institute is a brilliant comic novel from 1962 about life in a Turkey forced to adopt western ways. Pankaj Mishra salutes its author, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. Orhan Pamuk has called Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-62) the greatest Turkish novelist of the 20th century. (suite…)

A Ramshackle Modernity 5 janvier 2014

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The New York Times (USA)  Sunday, January 5, 2014, p. BR 11
Book Review

By Martin Riker *

We’re having a particularly good season for literary discoveries from the past, with recent publications of Volumes 1 and 2 of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq’s « Leg Over Leg » (1855), the marathon translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s 2,600-page « Zibaldone » (1898) and now « The Time Regulation Institute » (1962), the second great novel from Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. (suite…)

Writers gather to debate ‘city and fear’ 22 septembre 2012

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The Daily Telegraph (UK) 22 September 2012, p. 12

Bernadette McNulty

Ian Rankin and Louis de Bernieres are among the star line–up of 68 authors from 22 countries at Istanbul’s thriving autumn literary festival. (suite…)

Acturca Journal Watch December 2010 31 décembre 2010

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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, December 2010

Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin

Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)