Kurban Said Ali And Nino Pdf File
Ali and Nino is the epic novel of enduring romance in a time of war. It has been hailed as one of the most romantic epic novels of all time. Ali and Nino, two lovers from vastly different backgrounds, grow up together in carefree innocence in Baku on the Caspian Sea. Here, where Eastern and Occidental collide, they are inevitably drawn into the events of the First World War and the Russian. Ali e Nino: Una storia d'amore (Italian Edition) - Kindle edition by Kurban Said. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Ali e Nino: Una storia d'amore (Italian Edition). Who Kurban Said was. For a time it. Zaminli is the actual author of Ali. Born in Shusha, a town located. Publishing of Kurban Said's Ali and Nino.
Ali and Nino is the epic novel of enduring romance in a time of war. It has been hailed as one of the most romantic epic novels of all time.Ali and Nino, two lovers from vastly different backgrounds, grow up together in carefree innocence in Baku on the Caspian Sea.
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Here, where Eastern and Occidental collide, they are inevitably drawn into the events of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Torn apart by the turmoil, Ali joins the defense of Azerbajan from the onslaught of the Red Army, and Nino flees to the safety of Paris with their child, not knowing whether they will ever see each other again. A sweeping tale, as romantic and gripping as Gone with the Wind or Dr. Zhivago, it portrays, against a gloriously exotic backdrop, the enduring love between childhood friends divided by their separate cultures.
Who the heck is Kurban Said?Friday is my non-teaching day, so I went down to Montclair to check out what I think is the nearest used bookstore to my current apartment. It's called the, and it turns out it's pretty good - three floors, two storefronts, new and used books, and surprisingly well organized.Among other things, I came across two novels by a writer I'd never heard of, Kurban Said. Reading through Paul Theroux's afterword to Ali and Nino, I saw this:But how had this Central Asian come to write his book in German and publish it in Berlin?
Was he an exile, and if so, was this a pen name? It turns out that it was indeed a pen name, possibly shared by two people, one an Austrian baroness, Elfriede Ehrenfels, and the other an emigre Jew from Azerbaijan, Lev Nussimbaum, who had converted to Islam and taken the name Essad Bey and lived in Berlin and Vienna.Ok, wow. Now that's a backstory! Elsewhere, Theroux makes it clear that he believes Nussimbaum is most probably the single author of the novel: 'Mr. Reiss convincingly showed that Essad Bey - that is, Lev Nussimbaum - was the author of Ali and Nino. The novel is so informative and self-consciously Asiatic that you know it could only have been written by a brilliant outsider observing the society from a distance, and you guess, an exile.' So the revelation might not be that dramatic.
Lev Nussimbaum would likely have had many of the same life-experiences (albeit scaled down) as Kurban Said, the person he purported to be. And it probably wasn't at all unusual for Azerbaijani Jews to convert to Islam in the early 1900s.But wait. There is in fact a second afterward in the recent Anchor edition of Ali and Nino that in some ways contradicts the first. This one is by someone named Heinz Barazon:It was impossible for decades to identify the author behind the pseudonym, but it now seems clear that 'Kurban Said' is a pseudonym for two different people- a woman, the baroness Elfriede Ehrenfels, and a man Lev Nussimbaum. Lev Nussimbaum-who possibly had the original idea for the novel-was Jewish, born in Baku in Azerbaijan in 1905.
Nussimbaum's father took Lev and perhaps a German governess to Berlin during the tumult of the Russian Revolution. Nussimbaum completed his studies there, became a journalist and later wrote books about Mohammed, Nikolas II, Lenin, Reza Shah Pahlevi and regional geo-political issues. These books were published in London and New York under the name Essad Bey, the name he had taken in his youth when he converted to Islam.
After Hitler seized power, Nussimbaum fled Berlin for still-independent Austria where an intense friendship with Baroness Elfriede Ehrenfels, her family, and her circle, developed. Ali and Nino is almost certainly result of this relationship. Which sections of the novel are the work of which author remains an unsolved mystery.But wait, which version is correct - Heinz Barazon's, or Paul Theroux's? Is 'Kurban Said' simply the pen name for Lev Nussimbaum/Essad Bey, or is it a pseudonym that represents the work of two people?
Barazon's phrasing suggests he believes that Ehrenfels is the primary author of the book.Theroux's support for Nussimbaum is based on research done by Tom Reiss, who wrote an article in The New Yorker in 1999, and recently published a substantial book called. Serendipitously, according to Amazon, it just came out a couple of weeks ago.A quick Google search reveals an excerpt from The Orientalist (I highly recommend you read the whole thing).
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