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| Original Title: | Derviš i smrt |
| ISBN: | 0810112973 (ISBN13: 9780810112971) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/death-and-dervish-0 |
| Characters: | Ahmed Nuruddin |
| Setting: | Sarajevo(Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Literary Awards: | ANVOY Award (1970), NIN Prize (1966) |
Meša Selimović
Paperback | Pages: 473 pages Rating: 4.54 | 6842 Users | 252 Reviews
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| Title | : | Death and the Dervish |
| Author | : | Meša Selimović |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 473 pages |
| Published | : | August 14th 1996 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1966) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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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 Ottoman 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 that was made into a feature length film in 1974.Rating Regarding Books Death and the Dervish
Ratings: 4.54 From 6842 Users | 252 ReviewsCriticize Regarding Books Death and the Dervish
There's only one word I can use for this book - MASTERPIECE!!!It's not easy to change oneself, one must reject all that one has been, all that one has learned, everything that one has grown accustomed to. And you changed yourself completely. It's as if you learned how to walk all over again, to say your first words, to acquire basic habits. The reason must have been very, very important.""Do you grieve or hate? Beware of hatred, so you won't sin against yourself and others. Beware of grief, so you won't sin against God.
An epic Balkan book. What is it about? As in his other masterpiece, Tvrđava, Selimović posits the issues of his time (post-WWII Yugoslavia) in a more distant past, which allows him to not only cast those issues in a more objective light, but also to explore that little-known past and bring it to life. The main issues dealt with by the book are injustice, and how individuals operate in a totalitarian regime: the plots, manipulations and kickbacks that are necessary to get anything done. Like the
The reason to read this book is pretty clear, first its beautiful, its a slow meditative beautiful story of a fictional past which for me is also a world far away, each page is slow and the details are full of color and light, sighing and the distant sounds of brooksbut secondly because like in all great literature there is something to learn here, this book is a wonderful study of the relation between the individual and the authority of governance-we all have relations to authority in our
As a person who typically salivates all over fragmented novels with eclectic content, this one took me by surprise. It just felt so singular. Like one of those impressive slab tables made from a single enormous piece of wood. I know that sounds incredibly unremarkable, I guess a more impressive comparison would be a marble statue. Well, here's a quote from the introduction that hits the nail on the head: "Death and the Dervish is a hard book to extract freestanding passages from; virtually every
My closest Bosnian friend gave this to me after I'd read Ivo Andric's Bridge on the Drina. This is not as accessible a book as Andric's masterpiece. Drawing a comparison, Andric is Tolstoy while Selimović is Dostoevsky. While Andric gives you everything you need to know to appreciate his book, Selimović presupposes the reader knows enough to fill in the background.
One of the best novels ever written.
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