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Andrić tells a wonderful story of an avaricious woman, cut off from virtually everyone, except her parents and the memory of her parents, after they die. All of her life is conditioned by the warning she has received from her revered and beloved father. He had been on a pedestal and had then fallen. This was not going to happen to her, even if ...
With brilliant economy Andrić sketches the stages through which Miss Raika hoards and increases her inheritance: Sarajevo in the era of provincial usury, the economic upheavals and disintegration of the First World War, staid Belgrade headily embarking on the jazz age when the war is over, the pinched depression years during which Miss Raika dies.
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1. Okt. 2022 · Originally from Sarajevo, she had been living at the same house for some fifteen years in complete seclusion, leading the life of a lonely old maid with a reputation for stinginess and eccentricity. The novel is a story of her lonely life…
It is the tragic life of a woman disappointed in people and in the world she lives in. She is completely enslaved by money, in which she hopes to find security and revenge in a hateful and insecure world. At the same time she is literally and feverishly following her bankrupt father’s last plea, as she becomes not only thrifty but a real ...
16. Juni 2011 · The woman from Sarajevo. by. Andrić, Ivo, 1892-1975. Publication date. 1965. Publisher. New York, Knopf. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
The novel is set in the cities of Sarajevo and Belgrade dyring the first three decades of this century. The places and time are not incidentally chosen. Ivo Andri is from Bosnia and knows the people and their problems in this unique area. The theme and composition suggest a work of modern classicism.
Books. The Woman from Sarajevo. Ivo Andrić. Calder and Boyars, 1973 - English fiction - 246 pages. Other editions - View all. ‹ ›. About the author (1973) Ivo Andric was born October 10,...
