Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, both by Ivo Andric. Two books-the first, three short novels, the second, a single not very long one-by the Yugoslav author of the powerful novel of tyranny in Bosnia, The Bridge on the Drina. His target is still tyranny, some of it ancient and some, as is clearly legible between the lines, quite modern...
...DEVIL'S YARD (137 pp.)-Ivo Andric-Grove...
...this blood-soaked, soul-scarred land, a writer has emerged whose works constitute a massive indictment of tyranny. Ivo Andric, 70, won the 1961 Nobel Prize chiefly for his novel The Bridge on the Drina, in which he chronicles three centuries of heroic Bosnian endurance of oppression. Devil's Yard and the three short novels contained in The Vizier's Elephant are less epic works but no less powerful...
...Devil's Yard, the best of the four novels, is a searching examination of the mind of 20th century totalitarianism. The novel is set in a massive, fetid prison near Istanbul, in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, but the prison is obviously a modem police state in miniature. Guilty and innocent alike are cast into this prison where all standards have disappeared. Its chief warden is a masterpiece of characterization, both repellent and sympathetic, a tyrant trapped by fate as his victims are trapped...
...Devil confounded the conspirators by dying in bed. He was succeeded as Imam by Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 36, a scholarly left-winger who promised to modernize Yemen so that it could "catch up with the caravan of world progress." One of his first and most fatal acts was to appoint intriguing Colonel Sallal as commander of the palace guard...