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Death and the Dervish

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	:	Anniversary 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.

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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)

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Ratings: 4.54 From 6842 Users | 252 Reviews

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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

Good little review here: http://www.complete-review.com/review...And here: http://dannyreviews.com/h/Death_Dervi...Thoroughly recommended

This book is a huge favorite of mine and I'm quite surprised that I haven't written about it - yet.But I'm here now to correct that and to pay homage to this unprecedented masterpiece of, I dare to say, world literature.When I first came across this book, I was frankly very, very, unimaginably young and even more so immature. But, even at that period in my life, I din't fail to recognize that this novel is like a rare diamond that not many people are allowed to discover,understand and accept.Not

There's only one word I can use for this book - MASTERPIECE!!!



This was a difficult book to read. Not because the author has no skills. Not because the storyline is boring or confusing. At it's best, which is a great deal of the time, the book is lucid, interesting, compelling even, and easily relatable for the reader. Written almost entirely in the first person of the main character, it is often like walking around inside someone's head, listening to them sharing their thoughts with you, and occasionally just slipping off to talk only to themselves. And

Its actually the opposite(Selimovic is Tolstoj and Andric is Dostojevski). Selimovic has a more complex writing style and not everyone understands