Most Popular Books by Ivo Andric

''By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever'' Elif Shafak, New Statesman There is no hero or heroine in this book. Instead, there is a bridge, and there are the characters that have loved it, hated it, built it or tried to destroy it. Ivo Andric, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up beside it. For more than four hundred years a bridge has spanned the River Drina in Bosnia. This novel is its chronicle. Radisav, a workman, tries to hinder its construction and is impaled alive on its highest point. Beautiful Fata leaps from its parapet to escape an arranged marriage. Milan, inveterate gamble, risks all in one last game on it. Spanning generations, nationalities, creeds, and a great stretch of green water, the bridge bears witness to the lives played out on it, connections forged and centuries of conflict.

Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The time is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, is Tolstoyan. Inevitably, in its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is eerily relevant to readers today. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by a ceaseless game of diplomacy and double-dealing: expansive and courtly face-to-face, brooding and scheming behind closed doors. As they have for centuries, the Bosnians themselves observe and endure the machinations of greater powers that vie, futilely, to absorb them. Ivo Andric''s masterwork is imbued with the richness and complexity of a region that has brought much tragedy to our century and known so little peace.

Ivo Andric (1892-1975), Nobel Prize laureate for literature in 1961, is undoubtedly the most popular of all contemporary Yugoslav writers. Over the span of fifty-two years some 267 of his works have been published in thirty-three languages. Andric’s doctoral dissertation, The Development of Spiritual Life in Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule (1924), never before translated into English, sheds important light on the author’s literary writings and must be taken into account in any current critical analysis of his work. Over his long and distinguished career as a diplomat and man of letters Andric never again so directly or discursively addressed, as a social historian, the impact of Turkish hegemony on the Bosnian people (1463–1878), a theme he returns to again and again in his novels. Although Andric’s fiction was embedded in history, scholars know very little of his actual readings in history and have no other comparable treatment of it from his own pen. This dissertation abounds with topics that Andric incorporated into his early stories and later novels, including a focus on the moral stresses and compromises within Bosnia’s four religious confessions: Catholic, Orthodox, Jew, and Muslim. Z. B. Juricic provides an extensive introduction describing the circumstances under which this work was written and situating it in Andric’s oeuvre. John F. Loud’s original bibliography drawn from this dissertation stands as the only comprehensive inventory of historical sources known to have been closely familiar to the author at this early stage in his development.

A sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić about power, identity, and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul. Omer Pasha Latas is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a common resentment of faraway Ottoman rule. Omer is the seraskier, commander in chief of the Sultan’s armies, and as the book begins he arrives from Istanbul, dispatched to bring Sarajevo’s landowners to heel, a task that he accomplishes with his usual ferocity and efficiency. And yet the seraskier’s expedition to Bosnia is a time of reckoning for him as well: he was born in the Balkans, a Serb and a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a bright boy who escaped his father’s financial disgrace by running away and converting to Islam. Now, at the height of his power, he heads an army of misfits, adventurers, and outcasts from across Europe and Asia, and yet wherever he goes he remains a stranger. Ivo Andrić, who won the Nobel Prize in 1961, is a spellbinding storyteller and a magnificent stylist, and here, in his final novel, he surrounds his enigmatic central figure with many vivid and fascinating minor characters, lost souls and hopeless dreamers all, in a world that is slowly sliding towards disaster. Omer Pasha Latas combines the leisurely melancholy of Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March with the stark fatalism of an old ballad.

Prix Nobel de littérature en 1961, l''écrivain yougoslave Ivo Andric a écrit, parallèlement à la rédaction de son oeuvre littéraire, ce journal intime, où il a réuni des réflexions et méditations, certaines ébauches de textes, de courts récits, des aphorismes, des confessions, des jugements, des réactions de lecteur ou spectateur des évènements politiques ...

Objavljen 1945 kad i Na Drini cuprija i Travnicka hronika, roman Gospodica prati lik, zivot i sudbinske puteve Rajke Radakovic ali i misao da je život neprekidno trosenje svega oko nas i u nama. Suprotstavljajuci se toj neumitnoj sili koja "nagriza, busi, kida i rastvara" sve sto postoji, Gospodica se, u stvari, suprotstavlja samome zivotu.

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El pont sobre el Drina és la crònica d''una petita ciutat, la kasaba de Visegrad. La contrucció del pont, símbol d''unió entre pobles, és excusa per introduir els diferents destins dels seus personatges, que reflecteixen la història de Bòsnia, amb la seva diversitat d''ètnies i religions: cristians ortodoxos, catòlics, musulmans, jueus, tots ells agitats per sentiments, concepcions, prejudicis i tradicions contradictòries que, al llarg dels segles, no han canviat gaire. En el món descrit per Andric resta encara, però, un clam d''esperança.

ZBOG KRSENJA AUTORSKIH PRAVA, KNJIGA JE DO DALJNJEGA NEDOSTUPNA!

Jos od 1962. godine ovaj prozno-poetski triptih je jedno od najomiljenijih stiva danasnjih citalaca. Pripovedacka magnovenja vode citaoca putanjama svetlosti i treptaja i otkrivaju sustastvo same njegove imaginacije i stvaralastva. Kroz vecito iscekivanje Jelene, pripovedac tezi ka stvaranju, kao onom metafizickom koje zivotu onoga kojeg nazivamo stvaraocem zapravo daje pravi smisao. Njegova vecita potraga za poetskom misli, za stvaralackom ispunjenoscu je otelotvorena u Jeleni koja ga cudesno pohodi u ocekivanim, ali i u sasvim neocekivanim prilikama. Dok postoji Jelena, postoji i sam pripovedac. Samo da ne prestanem da je iscekujem, reci ce pripovedac na kraju. Nestanak maste i poriva za stvaranjem za pripovedaca znaci umiranje samo. Jace i ociglednije nego ikada, Ivo Andric ovim delom ispoljava svoju poetsku i filizofsku misao, razotkriva svoje sustastvo.

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La ciudad de Visegrad (Bosnia), situada a orillas del rio Drina, tuvo un momento de esplendor en la Edad Media por constituir un puente de transito entre el mundo cristiano y el islamico. Esta novela recoge la historia de esa comunidad plural y conflictiva tomando como pretexto narrativo el gran puente de piedra que cruza el rio, lugar de encuentro y paseo para sus habitantes. La larga cronica abarca desde el siglo XVI hasta principios del XX y nos da cuenta de las tensiones y enfrentamientos que se suceden y heredan de generacion en generacion. Suma de pequenas historias particulares que constituyen la historia de una comunidad de comunidades, la antigua Yugoslavia, esta narracion explica las raices del odio y la violencia.

«Se podría decir que, siguiendo el ejemplo de la legendaria y elocuente Sherezada, el propósito de un relato es conjurar al verdugo, suspender el juicio ineluctable del destino que nos acecha, prolongar la ilusión de la vida y el tiempo. ¿O acaso debería el narrador, por medio de su arte, ayudar a que los hombres nos conozcamos y reconozcamos? Quizá su vocación consista en hablar en nombre de aquellos que no tuvieron la habilidad para hacerlo, o que, aplastados por la vida, no hallaron la fuerza para expresarse. ¿O será, más bien, que el narrador sólo se cuenta su propia historia a sí mismo, como el niño que canta en la oscuridad para disipar su miedo? O, finalmente, ¿será que el propósito de los relatos es iluminar las sendas oscuras hacia las que la vida nos arroja, así como decirnos algo más sobre esta vida, que tendemos a vivir de forma ciega e inconsciente, algo más de lo que somos capaces de entender o comprender desde nuestra flaqueza? Y es por eso que las palabras de un buen narrador pueden arrojar luz sobre nuestros actos y nuestras faltas, sobre lo que deberíamos hacer y sobre lo que nunca debimos haber hecho. Por tanto, cabe preguntarse si la verdadera historia de la humanidad no debiera buscarse en estos relatos, orales o escritos—poco importa si tratan sobre el pasado o el presente—, o si no, al menos, debiera buscarse allí el difuso sentido de dicha historia». I. A., Estocolmo, 1961

Die 400 Jahre alte Brücke im bosnisch-serbischen Grenzgebiet steht mit ihrem und dem Schicksal der Menschen für die wechselnden Zeitläufte und Herrschaften. Neuausgabe des 1961 mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichneten Romans.