This book explores the conceptualization of time in the early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history. It offers a detailed comparative treatment of the works of Henri Bergson, A.H. Tanpınar, Walser Benjamin and Robert Walser, while presenting readers with an original account of modernism and time studies around these prominent figures. It addresses a set of historical and theoretical questions central to current reevaluations of modernism. Foregrounding the major texts of the Turkish modernist A.H. Tanpinar, who provides a unique and particularly relevant insight into the crisis of time, it argues that the modernists in this study invite us to rethink time at a time of devastating transformation and war, and to consider temporal multiplicities in cultural periodicity (collective memory, the past, tradition, ruins and genealogies) and in political modernities (bureaucratic, capitalist clock and accountable time).weiterlesen