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...
Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in a...
The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Published as Tvrdava in Serbian, it is the tenth and among the best-known novels by Mesa Selimovic (1910-1982). In the novel, Ahmet Shabo returns home to seventeenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of...
The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Published as Tvrdava in Serbian...
Der Derwisch und der Tod fhrt in das Bosnien des 18. Jahrhunderts zurck. Der fromme Scheich Ahmed Nurudin wird aus der friedlichen Ruhe des Derwischklosters gerissen; sein Bruder Harun ist von den osmanischen Machthabern, die auch ber die Provinz Bosnien gebieten, verhaftet worden. Beim Versuch, seinem Bruder zu helfen, gert auch der Derwisch in die Fnge der osmanischen Justiz; spter wird er an die Spitze einer bosnischen Erhebung gestellt, verrt jedoch, im alten religisen Ordnungswahn befangen, die Sache der Aufstndischen wie schlielich sogar seinen besten Freund. In drastischen Bildern...
Der Derwisch und der Tod fhrt in das Bosnien des 18. Jahrhunderts zurck. Der fromme Scheich Ahmed Nurudin wird aus der friedlichen Ruhe des Derwischkl...