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Death and the Dervish is a first-person narrative told from the point of view of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish at a Sarajevo monastery in the eighteenth century during the Turkish occupation. The spiritual leader of a group of Moslems, Sheikh Nuruddin has deliberately removed himself from the day-to-day activities of society. This distance is shattered, though, by the arrest of his brother. As Sheikh Nuruddin attempts to find out what has happened to his brother and to intervene on his behalf, he is drawn into the Kafkaesque world of the Turkish authorities. As he does so, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general. A literary masterpiece that was hugely successful when published in Yugoslavia in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish appears here in its first English translation.
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Khalid Baqir
reviewed Death and the Dervish on January 28, 2013 Death and the Dervish
Imagine a bag of candy with 455 pieces of the most delicious pieces of candy inside. Each is so delicate and mouth-watering that you feel the need to expand the joy to as many minutes as possible, and it sweetens the soul, just like it does the tongue.
This is basically what this book was like to me. It's not an easy read (and thank God for that), but it's great literature. Such great literature.
The book (written 1962-66 and a classic in Yugoslav literature) is set in Sarajevo under Ottoman rule (18th century) and has often been compared to The Trial by Franz Kafka, which is quite obvious when you think of the plot (man vs. system). I would, personally, describe it as a combination of both The Trial and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, based on the fact that the protagonist has long conversations with himself, mostly on doubt and indecisiveness. It's so riveting.
The book is incredibly slow in its storyteling, so if you haven't got the patience (or attention span) for that, I pity you - and think you should read something else. Maybe a magazine, or the subtitles to a Hollywood action movie.
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