Biography EssayIvo Andric's international importance as a major twentieth-century European writer was acknowledged in 1961, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. While most of his works a...
Read more
Ivo Andric's international importance as a major twentieth-century European writer was acknowledged in 1961, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. While most of his works are set in his ...
Read more
In the following essay, Goy explores autobiographical aspects of Andric's work and traces his development as an author.
I
Relatively little has been written about Ivo Andrić's ...
Read more
In the following essay, Mukerji perceives "Bar Titanic'" as Andrić's commentary on Nazi atrocities during World War II
Pieced together from coarse slices of Bosni...
Read more
In the following essay, Hawkesworth offers a thematic overview of the stories comprising The Damned Yard and Other Stories.
This selection of Andrić's short stories and the novella Th...
Read more
In the following essay, Mihailovich discusses the defining characteristics of Andrić's short stories.
Ivo Andrić settled upon the short story as the genre most appropriate to h...
Read more
In the following favorable review of The Pasha's Concubine and Other Stories, Simon lauds Andrić as "a master of the unspoken."
Ivo Andrić is a master of the unsp...
Read more
In the following review, Lord provides a laudatory assessment of The Pasha's Concubine and Other Stories
Publication of Ivo Andrić's The Pasha's Concubine and Other Stor...
Read more
In the following essay, Eekman refutes the idea that Andrić's later stories are pessimistic in nature, maintaining that hope can be found in his work.
Ivo Andrić acquired his f...
Read more
In the following essay, Loud surveys the major themes of Andric's short fiction
When he accepted the Nobel Prize in literature in 1961, Ivo Andrić took pains to describe himself as a ...
Read more
In the following essay, Johnson examines Andrić's changing portrayal of Bosnia by comparing his early story "Mara the Concubine" to his later story, "About the Old a...
Read more
In the following essay, Johnson urges a reassessment of Andrić's later fiction, and views the stories and sketches that comprise Lica as an important predecessor to Kuća na osami....
Read more
In the following essay, Rosslyn emphasizes the importance of testimony and truth in Andrić's short fiction.
In most of Andrić's stories a character experiences some kind...
Read more
In the following essay, Matejic finds that Andrić's use of elements of folklore in his works goes beyond adaptation and is instead a full-fledged “literarization” of tradit...
Read more
In the following essay, Butler analyzes Andrić's shift from writing in his native Bosnian ijekavian dialect to the Serbian ekavian.
Ivo Andrić, the Nobel Prize laureate for lit...
Read more
In the following essay, Eekman places Andrić's short stories in the context of the South Slavic literary tradition.
In the United States and Western Europe, Ivo Andrić is consi...
Read more
In the following essay, Gorup explores the ways in which Andrić's portrayal of male-female relationships provides insights into women's psyches.
Andrić's short st...
Read more
In the following essay, Sendich provides a point-by-point comparison of all of the English translations of Travnička hronika.
I.
Criticism of English translations of Ivo Andrić'...
Read more
In the following excerpt, Hawkesworth looks beyond the apparent objectivity in Andrić's short stories to discover the writer's subtle insertion of his own individuality in his nar...
Read more
In the following excerpt, Hawkesworth addresses Andrić's examination of the nature of art in The Devil's Yard.
More than is the case with many of Andrić's other w...
Read more
In the following excerpt, Hawkesworth examines major themes in Andrić's nonfiction prose.
Essays and Critical Writings
Andrić wrote a number of essays, reviews and articles whi...
Read more
In the following essay, Dimić discusses Andrić's place in the “universal heritage” of literature.
Ivo Andrić was born in Travnik in 1892, when Bosnia was s...
Read more
In the following essay, Rosslyn examines Andrić's thoughts on the nature and purpose of human testimony and autobiography.
In most of Andrić's stories a character experi...
Read more
In the following excerpt, Mukerji finds that Andrić posits in The Travnik Chronicle that religion could not have secured the state of Yugoslavia in the midst of political upheaval.
In antiqu...
Read more
In the following excerpt, Mukerji examines The Spinster as a “study of miserliness.”
Money circulates in all that people create and obtain, invisibly like the circulation of blood in ...
Read more
In the following excerpt, Mukerji explores the relationship between human interaction and the individual psyche in forming perceptions of reality.
When we form a judgment about people, their behavi...
Read more
Ivo Andric
Ivo Andric
Critical Essay by E. D. Goy
