ABSTRACT This article reads Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s 1954 novel The Time Regulation Institute (TRI) as an inherently modernist text. It provides a nuanced reading of the novel against conventional Tanpınar scholarship, which predominantly interprets it as a straightforward satire, and inserts it into an overdetermined philosophy of civilization attributed to the author. The article shows that Tanpınar’s poetics in TRI presents a philosophical alternative to the principle of cultural dualities of East and West, and that it reveals the damaging effects of modernization in the first half of the twentieth century, articulated in the novel as resistance to calibrating forms of temporal order. TRI engages with problems of time and memory, experimenting with the plurality of temporal experience, flowing in different speeds and belonging to different systems of reference. This article shifts critical emphasis from traditionalism to his aesthetic explorations, turning from “social” questions of identity, authenticity and cultural theory to representational issues in his writing: novelistic imagery, narrative time, thematic features and stylistic preferences. By foregrounding its modernist elements, it argues that Tanpınar’s novel deemphasizes the idea of continuity with the Ottoman past, in favor of a more critical and modernist approach.

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“自由奔放的时钟”：现代主义、时间性和时间调节研究所

摘要 本文将艾哈迈德·哈姆迪·坦皮纳尔 (Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar) 1954 年的小说《时间调节研究所 (TRI)》视为一种内在的现代主义文本。它提供了对小说的细致阅读，反对传统的 Tanpınar 学术，主要将其解释为直接的讽刺，并将其插入归因于作者的过度确定的文明哲学中。文章表明，Tanpınar 在 TRI 中的诗学为东西方文化二元性原则提供了哲学替代，并揭示了 20 世纪上半叶现代化的破坏性影响，小说中将其表述为对校准形式的抵抗时间顺序。TRI 致力于解决时间和记忆问题，尝试多种时间体验，以不同的速度流动，属于不同的参考系。本文将批判重点从传统主义转向他的美学探索，从身份、真实性和文化理论的“社会”问题转向他写作中的表征问题：小说意象、叙事时间、主题特征和文体偏好。通过突出其现代主义元素，它认为 Tanpınar 的小说淡化了与奥斯曼帝国历史延续的想法，而倾向于采用更具批判性和现代主义的方法。