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...
Ivo Andric (1892-1975), Nobel Prize laureate for literature in 1961, is undoubtedly the most popular of all contemporary Yugoslav writers. Over the sp...
In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears witness to three centuries of conflict. This title chronicles the lives of Catholics, Moselms and Orthodox Christians that unable to reconcile their disparate loyalties.
In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears...
