Summary
Dževad Karahasan: Šahrijar's ring
Selected works - Book 1
novel
For his novel Šahrijar's ring, Karahasan says that it is the most from Sarajevo. The story begins in Sarajevo and after a spiritual movement in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent, then in the old Mesopotania of the Sumerian era, then in the story of the creation of man and woman and again returns to wartime Sarajevo. I think that it is first of all a love story, tender, romantic. A story in which my interlocutors, friends like the great German critic Lotar Miller, recognize a series of essays, says Karahasan. A novel that is 18 years old and still has a lot to say. She has a perfect build. Every word is fully justified with endlessly entertaining characters. Perhaps the hopelessness of the man from these parts, his miserable inability to reach human completeness and individuality, to complete himself as a human being and, thanks to this, decide and do something in his own name, perhaps, I say, this hopeless immersion of the local man in the local fogs and collectivities is not shown as nakedly and as painfully obvious to the teacher as in his favorite pastime, which, of course, is much more than a pastime because it expresses his deepest joy by expressing it so and really the state of your spirituality. That devastating picture of the human impasse here is the so-called folk circle.
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