Most Popular Books by Ivo Andric

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.

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 era is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, Tolstoyan. In its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless 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 so much tragedy to our century and known so little peace. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

''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.

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.

Na Drini cuprija je remek-delo nobelovca Ive Andrica, jedno od najznačajnijih dela srpske i jugoslovenske knjizevnosti. Kroz priču o slavnoj cupriji u Visegradu, Andric prikazuje slozene sudbine ljudi i istorijske preokrete na prostoru Bosne i Hercegovine tokom vise vekova. Roman prati zivot mosta na Drini od njegovog nastanka do savremenih vremena, kroz koji se ispreplicu sudbine lokalnog stanovnistva, prolaznih okupacija i promene carstava. Ćuprija postaje simbol trajanja, most između kultura, epoha i ljudskih sudbina. Andriceva pripovest je duboko humanistička, sa pazljivo oblikovanim likovima i detaljnim opisima zivota u Bosni, te prikazuje kako istorija utiče na obične ljude. Kroz kombinaciju istorijskog romana, pripovedne meditacije i socijalnog osvrta, knjiga osvetljava raznolikost ljudskih karaktera, religijskih i nacionalnih identiteta. Ovo delo je ne samo priča o mostu, vec i o ljudskim teznjama, patnjama i trajanju kulture kroz vekove. Njegova knjizevna vrednost i filozofska dubina čine Na Drini cuprija nezaobilaznim delom svetske literature.

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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 ...

«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