The Bridge on the Drina

Posted on 17 June 2018 by Ivo Andrić

A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961 A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans by a Grand Vezir of the Ottoman Empire dominates the setting of Ivo Andric s novel Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, the bridge stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it Radisav, the workman, who tries to hinder its construction and is impaled on its highest point to the lovely Fata, who throws herself from its parapet to escape a loveless marriage to Milan, the gambler, who risks everything in one last game on the bridge with the devil his opponent to Fedun, the young soldier, who pays for a moment of spring forgetfulness with his life War finally destroys the span, and with it the last descendant of that family to which the Grand Vezir confided the care of his pious bequest the bridge back cover Free Read Books The Bridge on the Drina Author Ivo Andrić – kino-fada.fr Finished About a bridge, a beautiful bridge Through this bridge one finds hope But the book is also about the passage of time and the folly of man and the peoples and cultures of the Balkans One percieves the smallness of man There are no clear answers Is it foolish to hope for a better future, and what is better How does one judge progress If there is kindness isn t life good People are weak and mean and foolish, but at the same time they are kind and good and hard working Both are tr Finished About a bridge, a beautiful bridge Through this bridge one finds hope But the book is also about the passage of time and the folly of man and the peoples and cultures of the Balkans One percieves the smallness of man Ther... Images and myths purport to the mythic Ivo Andric crafted a monument to those expectations in his novel of stories He challenges the eternal with a construct, much as engineers spanned the natural with bridges Once present, the innovations often appear eternal, timeless It is a sincere hope that The Bridge on the Drina enjoys tha...Este libro es muy importante para m gracias a esto, descubr mucho de lo que hoy en d a s sobre Bosnia y los balcanes Un libro que recorre siglos de historia que, en este lado del mundo, no se habla nada o muy poco.No es f cil escribir acerca de esto de la manera que Andri lo hizo r pida, din mica, interesante, f cil de digerir Ivo te hace so ar e imaginarte ese hermoso puente lleno de historias y las mezclas de religiones Musulmana, Cristiana y Jud a Uf , tantas cosas que pasaron a Este libro es muy importante para m gracias a esto, descubr mucho de lo que hoy en d a s sobre Bosnia y los balcanes Un libro que recorre siglos de historia que, en este lado del mundo, no se habla nada o muy poco.No es f cil escribir acerca de esto de la manera que Andri lo hizo r pida, din mica, interesante, f cil de digerir Ivo te hace so ar e imaginarte ese hermoso puente ...1992Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn t, there is muchspace than one thinks On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend our lives Ivo Andri Published in 1945 but written earlier, probably during the war years when Nobel Prize winner Andri had given up his diplomatic work and was living as quietly as anyone could in Belgrade during those years of upheaval, The Bridge Over the Drina is the rather unusually told history of the to Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn t, there is muchspace than one thinks On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend our lives Ivo Andri Published in 1945 but written earlier, probably during the war years when Nobel Prize winner Andri had given up his diplomatic work and was living as quietly as anyone could in Belgrade during those years of upheaval, The Bridge Over the Drina is the rather unusually told history of the town of Vi egrad in the south east of Bosnia near the border with Serbia The period of time covered by the book is exactly the lifespan of the monumental bridge which was built at Vi egrad around 1570 by the Ottomans and which survived undamaged until 1914 While the bo....Beautiful stories centered around one bridge, following the society and individual fates throughout centuries It made me feel nostalgic and melancholic like most Bosnian authors make me feel It reminded me of writings of Me a Selimovi , who is one of my favorite authors I admire Ivo Andri ability to shape and describe characters, they felt so alive and so deeply tragic Some of the stories were too heart breaking for me to handle, and I hav...Na Drini uprija Bosnian Trilogy 1 , Ivo Andri 1979 1341 377 1960Na Drini uprija Bosnian Trilogy 1 , Ivo Andri 1979 1341 377 19601357.

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17 June 2018

Ivo Andrić