The city and cities in the stories, novels, essays and letters written by the Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric

• Main Author: Шолак, З.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Інститут літератури ім. Т.Г. Шевченка НАН України 2010
• Series: Актуальні проблеми слов’янської філології. Серія: Лінгвістика і літературознавство
• Subjects: Образ міста: міф – історія – фантазія
• Online Access: http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/38034

In his letters, essays stories and novels The Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić mentioned many cities. He had visited a large number of them both at home and abroad and left behind his thoughts regarding them. Amongst the cities we can find: Rome, Naples, Vienna, Graz, Bucharest, Krakow, Athens, Istanbul, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, Moscow, Leningrad, Beijing, Geneva, Marseilles, Copenhagen and London. In his observations Andrić always tries to find the most important characteristics of cities or he just presents certain interesting impressions lingering on some happenstance detail ha had come across. Je always tried to provide not only explanations gotten from documents but also from other sources and personal impressions in order to portrait events which had taken place in the cities linked to his personal life: Travnik, Višegrad, Sarajevo and Belgrade. Keywords: Ivo Andrić, city, novel, story, travel book.