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Death and the Dervish - Couverture souple

Selimovic, Mesa

 
9780810112971: Death and the Dervish
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0810112973 ISBN 13 : 9780810112971
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810112973
ISBN 13 
9780810112971
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
473
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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