SOURCE: "Bosnia through the Ages," in New York Times Book Review, July 28, 1968, pp. 4, 31.

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 unspoken. Other writers may go further in giving expression to the ideas and cognitions of man. But whatever is dark and indefinable, too deep for psychologizing to label, is caught in Andrić's fictions—caught not the way a dead butterfly is pinned to our consciousness, but as some terrible beast is tracked to its lair, to be heard and occasionally glimpsed, but never handled and catalogued. If greatness can be in intimations and implications (and why can't it?). Andric is a great writer who must and will burst the bonds of the little-known language he writes in.

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