Word: ivo
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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 (247 pp.)-Ivo Andric-Harcourt, Brace & World...
DEVIL'S YARD (137 pp.)-Ivo Andric-Grove...
...century, the Austrians moved in for 40 years. The Nazis took over in 1941, and the 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...
...down the street from Tito's villa. He has had six private sessions with Tito, more than any of the 45 other ambassadors in Belgrade. He explores the countryside on horseback or by car, has been busily reading Yugoslav literature (including all four novels by 1961 Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric). When he found that no first-rate history of Yugoslavia exists, Kennan decided that the embassy should write its own, one chapter per officer (his own assignment: medieval Serbia). Always the intellectual, when his turn came to conduct Sunday services at the nondenominational embassy church. Presbyterian Kennan spurned...