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Death and the Dervish

By Mesa Selimovic

Book information

Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Year
1966
ISBN
978-0-8101-6803-9
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
426 kB (436664 bytes)
Pages
473\0
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-08-05 09:17:50
Selimovic Bosnia Yugoslavia Ottomans

Description

Bogdan Rakic (transl.), Stephen M. Dickey (transl.) Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans. When his brother is arrested, he must descend into the Kafkaesque world of the Turkish authorities in his search to discover what happened to him. He narrates his story in the form of an elaborate suicide note, regularly misquoting the Koran. In time, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general. Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish is an enduring classic from twentieth-century Yugoslavia.

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