Death and the Dervish (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Mesa Selimovic

Death and the Dervish (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Mesa Selimovic

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.

MESA SELIMOVIC (1910-1982) was born in Tuzla, Bosnia. A writer of numerous award-winning novels, including The Fortress, he was among the most popular novelists in Yugoslavia.

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ISBN 13	9780810112971
ISBN 10	0810112973
Titel	Death and the Dervish (Writings from an Unbound Europe)
Autor	Mesa Selimovic
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Northwestern University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-08-30
Seitenanzahl	473
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