Word: viziers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, by Ivo Andric. In four short novels a Yugoslav Nobel prizewinner treats with some new and old varieties of human tyranny...
...Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, by Ivo Andric. In four short novels a Yugoslav Nobel prizewinner treats with some new and old varieties of human tyranny...
...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...
...earlier novels, Andric attacked tyranny by parable, in his later, by character portrayal. In The Vizier's Elephant, the earliest of the four novels, tyranny is symbolized by a rambunctious elephant, the pet of a ruthless Turkish vizier of a Bosnian town. The vizier is seldom seen; instead his elephant takes his place in public, inspiring all the fear, doing all the damage that the vizier normally would. Andric's implied moral: when man is a tyrant, he may as well be a beast...