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Some also believe that Lev Nussembaum, who wrote under the pseudonym "Essad Bey," is the book's author. Yusuf Vezir Çemenzeminli, a prominent Azerbaijani writer, is the most probable author. Although discussions continue as to who the story's real author is, the book remained without an owner for a long time. Since then, the book has been translated from German into 33 languages and published over 100 times. Jonia Framan, a German painter, discovered the forgotten book in a bookshop and published it in German in 1937. Describing a love affair between a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and a Christian Georgian girl, the book was first published in 1937 in Germany. Last year, a film of the novel was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, increasing the novel's popularity. Introduction: Ali and Nino as World Literature - Cori CraneĪli and Nino: The Novel as/of Cultural Translation - Azade SeyhanĬrossing Borders, Crossing Disciplines: Ali and Nino in the Twenty-First Century - Lisabeth M.Written under the pseudonym Kurban Said, the novel "Ali and Nino" is one of the masterpieces of southern Caucasian literature and multicultural studies. Notes on Editions of and References to Ali and Nino
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Introduction: Ali and Nino as World Literature - Carl Niekerk Cori Crane is Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Language Program in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke University. It is intended to showcase the suitability of Ali and Nino for inclusion in a curriculum focused on German, world literature, or area studies, and to suggest a variety of approaches to the novel while also appealing to its fans.Ĭontributors: Sara Abdoullah-Zadeh, Cori Crane, Chase Dimock, Christine Rapp Dombrowski, Elizabeth WeberEdwards, Anja Haensch, Kamaal Haque, Lisabeth Hock, Ruchama Johnston-Bloom, Carl Niekerk, Elke Pfitzinger, Soraya Saatchi, Daniel Schreiner, Azade Seyhan.Ĭarl Niekerk is Professor of German with affiliate appointmentsin French, Comparative and World Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The present volume collects twelve newessays on different aspects of the text by scholars from a variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Reiss's discovery has spurred new interest in the novel, as has the fact that the book prefigures today's perceived conflicts between East and West or Islam and Christianity, but also suggests a more peaceful model of intercultural living in multiethnic Baku's melting pot of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Recent research by the journalist Tom Reiss has revealed the identity of the author as Lev/Leo Nussimbaum (1905-1942), aJewish man born in Baku who converted to Islam, worked as a journalist in Berlin, and died forgotten in exile. Itwas a major success, translated into several other languages, but was forgotten by the end of World War II. Ali and Nino is a novel published in German in 1937 under the alias "Kurban Said," a love story between a Muslim man and a Christian woman set in Baku, Azerbaijan, during World War I and the country's brief independence.