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Title: Bosnian Chronicle : A Novel by Ivo Andric ISBN: 1-55970-236-2 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 07 September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Andric's Best
Comment: I read this book a few years ago, and still think about its stories and themes. This brilliant novel opens a window to the small Bosnian town of Travnik (Andric's hometown) where representatives of the great European empires have come to play out their epochal hostilities under the suspicious eyes of the local townfolk. While the novel takes place in the Napoleonic era, the story was written (as was "Bridge on the Drina") while Andric was under house arrest during World War II, and thus its story of great forces coming to shake up a small town can be read in light of more recent world changing events. I made a point to visit Travnik on a trip to Bosnia two years ago, and felt as if I already knew the town intimately: the remains of the Pasha's palace on the hill is still there just as Andric describes it, as is the town nestled in the rolling Bosnian hills replete with Turkish fountains and monuments. Sadly, the multiethnic character of the town is gone now, as Serbs such as Andric himself are hard to come by in this part of Bosnia, and Jews are even more difficult to find. By reading this book, however, one can briefly visit Travnik in its multiethnic heyday, and enjoy the depiction of comraderie and sparring between the different local ethnic groups before the age of nationalism truly took hold. Everyone I have met from the former Yugoslavia cites this novel as Andric's best work.
Incidentally, this book has been translated as Travnik Chronicles (the original title), Bosnian Chronicle, and Days of the Consuls (translated by Celia Hawkesworth). Also, a collection of Andric short stories, entitled "The Damned Yard" in the edition I have, also features several more stories set in Travnik around the same era.
Rating: 1
Summary: Prolix.
Comment: I very much enjoyed Andric's "The Bridge Over the Drina", but reluctantly gave up on this book after 104 prolix pages. This is one of those cases where an abridged version would be a definite improvement. Incidentally, the version I read was translated by Kenneth Johnstone, and was entitled "Bosnian Story" instead of "Bosnian Chronicle".
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece
Comment: Andric's novel describes the events in a provincial town within the Ottoman Empire during the Napoleonic era. The story is told from the viewpoint of the French consul, a western rationalist. The interactions of the French consul, his Austrian counterparts, and members of their households with the local residents of various religions, and with the Turkish vizier are related with great sympathy and humanity for all the characters. The book is wise and perceptive. The translation is excellent.
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Title: The Bridge on the Drina (A Phoenix Book ; P746) by Ivo Andric, Lovett F. Edwards ISBN: 0226020452 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1984 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Fortress (Writings from and Unbound Europe) by Mesa Selimovic, Edward Dennis Goy, Jasna Levinger ISBN: 0810117134 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Death and the Dervish (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Mesa Selimovic, Bogdan Rakic, Stephen Dickey, Mesa Selminovic ISBN: 0810112973 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare ISBN: 1559703687 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 20 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Elegy for Kosovo : Stories by Ismail Kadare ISBN: 1559705280 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 10 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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