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The Book of Devices

Af: Ihsan Oktay Anar Engelsk Paperback

The Book of Devices

Af: Ihsan Oktay Anar Engelsk Paperback
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Ihsan Oktay Anar’s 1996 novella, "The Book of Devices," is a skeleton key to the ever-inventive author’s fictional world set in the Ottoman times. Here are the wonderful histories of the triumphs and tribulations of three Ottoman inventors, “as reported by the narrators of events and relators of traditions.” By turns humorous and touching, these interlinked stories are nutshells of vividly imagined past. While we follow Yafes Chelebi and his two successors in their search for the secret of the perpetual motion, the crumbling empire undergoes drastic changes in the background and the city of their dreams, Istanbul, witnesses coup d’états, Westernizing reforms, and the advent of technological innovation. Written in a unique idiom that is both a tender mimicry and witty parody of the Ottoman bureaucratic prose, The Book of Devices is Anar at his imaginative best. One cannot help but wonder how a twenty-first-century author can dwell in the past with such ease and come back to the present, as in a Borgesian parable, with a cabinet of dreamy curiosities.
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Ihsan Oktay Anar’s 1996 novella, "The Book of Devices," is a skeleton key to the ever-inventive author’s fictional world set in the Ottoman times. Here are the wonderful histories of the triumphs and tribulations of three Ottoman inventors, “as reported by the narrators of events and relators of traditions.” By turns humorous and touching, these interlinked stories are nutshells of vividly imagined past. While we follow Yafes Chelebi and his two successors in their search for the secret of the perpetual motion, the crumbling empire undergoes drastic changes in the background and the city of their dreams, Istanbul, witnesses coup d’états, Westernizing reforms, and the advent of technological innovation. Written in a unique idiom that is both a tender mimicry and witty parody of the Ottoman bureaucratic prose, The Book of Devices is Anar at his imaginative best. One cannot help but wonder how a twenty-first-century author can dwell in the past with such ease and come back to the present, as in a Borgesian parable, with a cabinet of dreamy curiosities.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 144
ISBN-13: 9786059389747
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 6059389740
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 20 maj 2021
Længde: 9mm
Bredde: 132mm
Højde: 202mm
Forlag: Koc University Press
Oplagsdato: 20 maj 2021
Forfatter(e): Ihsan Oktay Anar
Forfatter(e) Ihsan Oktay Anar

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9786059389747

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 144

Udgave

Længde 9mm

Bredde 132mm

Højde 202mm

Udg. Dato 20 maj 2021

Oplagsdato 20 maj 2021

Forlag Koc University Press