РЕЛИГИЈСКИ ПОДТЕКСТ POMAHA ДЕРВИШ И CMPT МЕШЕ СЕЛИМОВИЂА
RELIGIOUS SUBTEXT OF THE NOVEL DEATH AND THE DERVISH BY MEŠA SELIMOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: Religious subtext of the novel Death and the Dervish is an unavoidable starting point for its interpretation. Besides, the religious subtext of the novel has not been researched enough yet. The novel is pervaded by the islamic simbolism for that his cyclic composition, wich points out the circle dance of Mevlevian Dervishes is an example. The quotations from the begining of each chapter are very different from the original Koranic text. The majority of the quotations have been totally extracted from the context by wich they have got absolutely different meaning from the Koranic. The central story inserted in the subtext of the novel is the story of God emissaries who, preaching the true religion come into a conflict with the rulers and are exiled. Quotes from the works of well known Islamic philosophers point to a possibility of interpreting the novel Death and the Dervish from the view point of the Islamic mysticism, while the traditional folk myths and beliefs in the subtext of the novel complement the intricate religious subtext of Selimovic’s work at hand.

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