Gosro, Saadi en soefisme als cultuurtekst. Een intertekstuele lectuur van Portretten en een oude droom van Kader Abdolah

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This article presents an intertextual reading of Kader Abdolah’s novel Portretten en een oude droom [Portraits and an old dream]. Using the model of intertextual analysis proposed by the Dutch academic, Maaike Meijer (1996), I will focus here on three levels of intertextuality: firstly, intertextual links with traceable literary texts; secondly, the influence of the genre-specific conventions on which the new text is modelled; and finally, the entanglement of the text with cultural scenario’s – common meanings, prevailing conventions of representation, culturally rooted ways of thinking – the source of which cannot be traced back. I will try to answer the question what functions the various intertexts serve in Abdolah’s novel and which new interpretative possibilities they carry along.