Racconti di Sarajevo

by Ivo Andrić

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Racconti dolenti e meravigliosi, che parlano del presente immersi come sono nel passato: due amici che dopo anni e una guerra si ritrovano per un attimo, e da quell'incontro nasce una lucidissima analisi del carattere bosniaco e la ragione per cui quella terra non ha pace, una vecchia che meditando su un antico tappeto ci fa capire che non si può mai gioire delle disgrazie altrui e che la cupidigia porta alla morte, un impiegato sottomesso che per un giorno ogni anni trova nell'alcool il coraggio di dire quello che pensa, uno sciagurato che ha dilapidato la sua vita e finisce per morire un po' alla volta ricordando chi è stato migliore di lui. Storie piccole, quasi banali, ma quanto impossibili da dimenticare.

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Ivo Andric was born October 10, 1892, in Docu, Bosnia. He was raised in Bosnia, a region of violent political turmoil for centuries. As a young patriot, Andric became associated with political organizations, leading to his imprisonment for three years during World War I. He was also under virtual house arrest during World War II. While imprisoned show more Andric wrote his most creative material as he explored the agonies of Bosnia's oppression and exploitation. His World War I incarceration led to Ex Ponto, his collection of prison meditations and philosophy. His World War II house arrest provided Andric with the material and time to produce his most memorable novels, known as the Bosnian trilogy-Gospodjica (The Woman From Sarajevo), Travnicka hronicka (Bosnian Story or Chronicle), and Na Drini cuprija (The Bridge on the Drina). His devotion to truth and morality in times of despair and struggle is one of his strengths. His work has been translated into German, French, Russian, Spanish, and Italian. After the wars, Andric served as a Yugoslav diplomat, deputy, and representative from Bosnia. He was a member of the Federation of Writers of Yugoslavia. Andric was awarded the Prize for Life Work from the Yugoslav government in 1956, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961, and was bestowed an honorary doctorate from the University of Krakon in 1964. Andric died March 13, 1975, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Pismo iz 1920; Ćilim; Snopići; Svečanost; Sarači; Julski dan; Razgovor predveče
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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891.8235Literature & rhetoricAsian LiteratureEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesWest and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)Serbo-CroatianFiction1900–1991

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