IVO ANDRIC THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA DOWNLOAD

The Bridge on the Drina was published in March of that year to widespread acclaim. There were violent times in the history of the bridge and I have to admit that I skimmed over the most harrowing episode which occurred near the beginning but fortunately, there were no more such scenes recounted. Legends and myths and history all intertwined. I'd been reading many books about the history of Yugoslavia and its constituents, but most had been by foreign authors. Through the centuries, the fate of the town is passed between the empires, from the Ottoman Empire to the Austro-Hungarians. In Classe, Olive ed. Reading the literature helped me begin to understand the self-consciousness of the Bosnian people.

Uploader:	Turg
Date Added:	24 December 2018
File Size:	15.90 Mb
Operating Systems:	Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/2003/7/8/10 MacOS 10/X
Downloads:	24232
Price:	Free* [*Free Regsitration Required]

Radisav, the workman, who tries to hinder its fhe and is impaled on its highest point; to the lovely Fata, who throws herself from its parapet to escape a loveless marriage; to Milan, the gambler, who risks everything in one last game on the bridge with the devil his opponent; to Fedun, the young soldier, who pays for a moment of spring forgetfulness with his life.

My experiences in the last 12 years have certainly enhanced my appreciation ovo this masterpiece. After reading it, it seems that I could not have found a better way to get a vivid description of this region's story.

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić

Jun 04, K rated it it was amazing. It's a novel of endurance, acceptance and time passing.

The book ends around the time of the First World War when the bridge is partially destroyed. Nov 28, Sarah rated it really liked it Shelves: Indeed it gives a much better feel for the history of relationships between Christians and Muslims in the area than any account of battles, treaties and dates is likely to do. The bridge collapses in the end,"its broken arches long painfully toward each other" which paints a rather bleak picture.

Th Erina Andric describes the life and times of the people of Visegrad, a small riverside town brkdge Bosnia, from to It's interesting, what Turkey is investing where.

Several scholars interpret Radisav's impalement as an allegory for the state of Bosnia itself—subjected, vulnerable and fragmented between Christianity xndric Islam. The University of Wisconsin Press. I was certainly unfamiliar with these traditions and legacies when I first approached The Bridge on the Drina. Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. In Junehe was allowed to return to German-occupied Belgrade but was confined to a friend's apartment in conditions that some biographers liken to house arrest.

He implies that the takeover by the Hapsburg Empire towards the end of the nineteenth century hte the dragging of the town into the modern age, via the railway, sounded the death knell of that peaceful co-existence. They got a long, sharp, pointed pole.

And so Big History and lived experience remained sadly disconnected, as least on my watch. View all 21 comments. I did not know anything about the history of the Balkans before reading Andric's book. This book was given me by a close Bosnian friend along with some other examples of the literature of her country.

Four centuries of history of the Balkans condensed a microcosm: The partial destruction of the bridge at the end of book and during WW2 as Andric was writing it seems to prefigure this.

The Bridge on the Drina

As time progresses, legends develop around the history of the bridge. Then in the latter half of the s their was a flood more terrible than any ever before.

While this world of ours might be full of corruption, uneducated people, bad governments, lawlessness and even backwardness, it's still a very Also available oj the WondrousBooks blog.

This is a historical novel of epic proportions, wide scope and thought-provoking, beautiful prose naturally I regret that I am unable to read this in the native language. Through the four chronicled centuries, though empires change and so do fortunes, life around the bridge undergoes little change.

Jan 10, Milo rated it it was amazing Shelves: Want to Read saving…. Thus, it was he who first, in a single moment behind closed eyelids, saw the graceful silhouette of anvric great stone bridge which was to be built there. But life in the little town on both sides of the bridge changes only imperceptibly, as does brixge bridge itself over the centuries.

Could a man-made creation serve a nobler purpose?

But the book is also about the passage of time and the folly of man and the peoples and cultures of the Balkans. The town of Visegrad and its stunning bridge, so anxric and touchingly described with attentive detail, have left such an impression on me that I feel as though I have an intimate connection through Andric's prose to a place and time which I have gridge before visited.

So how can one write a paged book, or a novel, about a sturdy stone bridge on a river?