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Yayın dünyasının çok yakından tanıdığı ve yine yayınladığı diğer edebî eserlerle çeşitli ödüllere layık bulduğu Şule Gürbüz, bu çalışmasında saatin hikayesini ele aldı. Başta Dolmabahçe Sarayı olmak üzere Mili Saraylar, zengin ve nitelikli bir saat koleksiyonuna sahiptir. Koleksiyonumuzdaki saatler Saat Atölyesi’nde ustalarımız tarafından uzun çaba ve çalışmalarla tamir edilmiş; çalar, çalışır hale getirilmiş ve nihayetinde Saat Müzesi açılmıştır. Bu minvalde de müzedeki saatleri içeren bir katolog daha önce yayınlanmıştır. Yine bu çerçevede, Milli Saraylar saat koleksiyonu sorumlusu Şule Gürbüz tarafından, katalogtan farklı olarak geçmişten günümüze saat ve zaman olgusunun geçirdiği serüveni ortaya koyan denemeleri içeren bu değerli eser yayınlanmıştır.
127 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Şule Gürbüz
13 books280 followersShe's not a hermit, though in other times she could have been. Her job is not in keeping with the times: she repairs the clocks in the Ottoman palaces. Şule Gürbüz is the only woman in the world to be an expert in mechanical clocks and author of two collections of stories which are small jewels of contemporary Turkish literature: Zamanin Farkinda (Aware of time, 2011) and Coskuyla Olmek (Die enthusiastically, 2012)
Aged only eighteen she wrote her first novel, Kambur (The Hunchback, 1992), published at the first attempt by the well-known Iletişim, likewise publishers of her last two works. But, apart from an interval marked by a collection of poetry and a theatrical text, for almost twenty years Şule Gürbüz has remained outside the Turkish literary scene. She studied History of Art in Istanbul and Philosophy in England. On her return she became apprenticed to Recep Gürgen, the last master clock maker in the Imperial Palaces, to then become in her turn a master.
Over the years the two of them were able to set working more than 300 clocks, both Turkish and foreign, belonging to the period between the XVI and XIX centuries. For the most part these clocks were recovered from a state of abandon and then put on show in museums which are today housed in the Topkapi and Dolmabahçe Palaces. This path has played a determining role in Gürbüz's writing which reflects on human existence and the sense of life using expressive and ironic language, taking up and giving voice to various themes in the Turkish-Muslim culture.
Aged only eighteen she wrote her first novel, Kambur (The Hunchback, 1992), published at the first attempt by the well-known Iletişim, likewise publishers of her last two works. But, apart from an interval marked by a collection of poetry and a theatrical text, for almost twenty years Şule Gürbüz has remained outside the Turkish literary scene. She studied History of Art in Istanbul and Philosophy in England. On her return she became apprenticed to Recep Gürgen, the last master clock maker in the Imperial Palaces, to then become in her turn a master.
Over the years the two of them were able to set working more than 300 clocks, both Turkish and foreign, belonging to the period between the XVI and XIX centuries. For the most part these clocks were recovered from a state of abandon and then put on show in museums which are today housed in the Topkapi and Dolmabahçe Palaces. This path has played a determining role in Gürbüz's writing which reflects on human existence and the sense of life using expressive and ironic language, taking up and giving voice to various themes in the Turkish-Muslim culture.
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