@article{2019,title={MESA SELIMOVIC “DERVISH AND DEATH” IN HIS NOVEL THE INDIVIDUAL/SOCIETY/ CONFLICT OF POWER},abstractNode={Mesa Selimovic, one of the most important writers of Bosnian literature, was born in the city of Tuzla in Bosnia in 1910. The author, who has an extremely emotional structure, has participated in the Second World War personally, and has written an impressive narrative and an impressive style that drives the traces of war in the human soul. The publication of “Dervish and Death”in 1966 aroused great interest in the Yugoslav literary circles. The work was translated into Turkish in 1973. On the list of "100 Basic Works to be Treated in Secondary Schools" announced on 19, August 2004. The infrastructure of the novel is based on a real experience. Selimovich’s biggest brother as a military court ruled by the decision of the end of 1944 to form the basis of the novel. Author counts as an important turning point in his life and this event during the last years of the Ottoman Empire in Balkan by constructing it in the form of a novel penned in geography. In the novel, of his brother in an unjust way the state/government who revolted by the killing of Sheikh Ahmet Nureddin's own inner world with the mevlevi tekke, society, and power, the conflict is processed.. The concept of conflict with different contents in different disciplines is generally defined as the distraction or distraction that arises from the competition of wishes, desires or goals that do not match with each other. In literary works on the basis of narration, conflict is the name given to the tension in which people who make up the steps in the development of the event pattern live in their relations with themselves, with each other or with their environment. This study aims to examine the conflict between power, religion, morality, justice, crime, punishment and the individual/society/power, which is shaped by feelings like anger, hate, revenge, betrayal, loyalty, friendship, etc.in the novel “Dervish and Death”.},author={Metin OKTAY},year={2019},journal={Turkish Studies - Language and Literature}}