Word: drina
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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...
...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...
...Communists in 1945, each adding its own refinement to the art of oppression. Out of 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...
...John Perse) and the first of his countrymen ever honored by the Swedish Academy, the unassuming, owlish-looking Serb was Yugoslav minister to Berlin when the Nazis invaded his country in 1941. Abandoning public life, he settled down to write a sweeping Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while it was still under Nazi occupation. A onetime president of Yugoslavia's Communist Federation of Writers but never a party member, Andric (pronounced Ahndreach) celebrated his Nobel award with a slivovitz toast to Sweden, hoped despite his frail health...