![]() ![]() ![]() The novel centers on a particular focal point in that community-a bridge across the Drina river, built upon the edict of the Turkish vizier Mehmed Pasha Sokolli in 1516. The Bridge on the Drina takes the form of a historical chronicle of Višegrad, a small town in eastern Bosnia where Andrić spent his childhood. Andrić’s storytelling functions as the very point of human unification. This human toil, however, generates empathy and solidarity that cross ethnicities, religions, and races. Under the formal guise of emphatic localisms, the novel bespeaks the universal condition of struggle and suffering. The area takes its name from the Balkan mountains running through the center of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of southeastern Europe. The Bridge on the Drina is part of a trilogy, all published in 1945, that includes Bosnia Story ( Travnicka Hronika) and The Woman from Sarajevo ( Gospodjica). Written during World War II, this short novel is the best expression of Andric´’s singular vision of the Balkan region as the bridge between the Orient and the Occident, the East and the West. ![]() The Bridge on the Drina is the novel that brought international acclaim- as well as the 1961 Nobel Prize-to the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić (1892–1975). Analysis of Ivo Andrić’s The Bridge on the Drina ![]()
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