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Title	:	Death and the Dervish
Author	:	Meša Selimović
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 473 pages
Published	:	August 14th 1996 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction

Death and the Dervish

Meša Selimović

Paperback | Pages: 473 pages

Rating: 4.54 | 6842 Users | 252 Reviews

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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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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



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

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

All we try to do in life is have a congruent and balanced view about the world, people and what's happening around us. And we try to protect our safe zone often ignoring and dismissing the things that not fit in our congruent view about the life. We believe in that we live in a just world, suffering people suffer because they must have done something to deserve this (!) And, what happens if our congruent world attacks us from behind and then we become the object of injustice? Can we manage to

Masterpiece. If I had to chose The Book of the books - this would be my choice!

What a piece of art this book is. I could feel the main characters feelings, his anxiety, worries, fright, happiness, love for his friend, doubts. Although I haven't been in similar situations as he has, it was easy to follow his stream of thoughts. The language is unique: simple, in some parts lyrical, with some turkish-originated words.One technical part I really loved was the tempo of the text: when everything was calm, the sentences were longer and you could sense peace from memories, nature