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Staze, lica, predeli

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=Paths, people, landscapes
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287 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

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Ivo Andrić

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Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being released following a general amnesty for such cases in July 1917. After the war, he studied South Slavic history and literature at universities in Zagreb and Graz, eventually attaining his PhD. in Graz in 1924. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1924 to 1941. In 1939, he became Yugoslavia's ambassador to Germany, but his tenure ended in April 1941 with the German-led invasion of his country. Shortly after the invasion, Andrić returned to German-occupied Belgrade. He lived quietly in a friend's apartment for the duration of World War II, in conditions likened by some biographers to house arrest, and wrote some of his most important works, including Na Drini ćuprija (The Bridge on the Drina).
Following the war, Andrić was named to a number of ceremonial posts in Yugoslavia, which had since come under communist rule. In 1961, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, selecting him over writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck and E.M. Forster. The Committee cited "the epic force with which he ... traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from his country's history". Afterwards, Andrić's works found an international audience and were translated into a number of languages. In subsequent years, he received a number of awards in his native country. Andrić's health declined substantially in late 1974 and he died in Belgrade the following March.
In the years following Andrić's death, the Belgrade apartment where he spent much of World War II was converted into a museum and a nearby street corner was named in his honour. A number of other cities in the former Yugoslavia also have streets bearing his name. In 2012, filmmaker Emir Kusturica began construction of an ethno-town in eastern Bosnia that is named after Andrić. As Yugoslavia's only Nobel Prize-winning writer, Andrić was well known and respected in his native country during his lifetime. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, beginning in the 1950s and continuing past the breakup of Yugoslavia, his works have been disparaged by Bosniak literary critics for their supposed anti-Muslim bias. In Croatia, his works had occasionally been blacklisted following Yugoslavia's dissolution in the 1990s, but were rehabilitated by the literary community. He is highly regarded in Serbia for his contributions to Serbian literature.

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47 reviews5 followers
March 17, 2021
Од приповедака, до есеја и путописа – ово дело садржи све. Морам да признам да ми се највише допао део „Стазе“, посебно због мотива сунца:
„Да, у ствари постоји само сунце, а све ово што живи, дише, гамиже, лети, сја или цвате, само је одблесак тога сунца, само један од видова његовог постојања. Сва бића и све ствари постоје само у толико у колико у својим ћелијицама носе резерве сунчевог даха. Сунце је облик и равнотежа; оно је свест и мисао, глас, покрет, име.“
Сунце представља део нас, неку светлост, неисцрпну, непресушну вољу за животом. Сунце стварамо ми сами – зато је лику из дела „ноћ пуна сунца и богатства, а јутро сиво, убого, без зрачка и видела“. Током ноћи је сам са својим мислима, док му се током дана намећу многе околности на које не може да утиче. Верујем да велика већина нас може с тим да се сложи.
„Летећи над морем“ је најлепши путопис у овом делу према мом мишљењу. Кроз изузетно сликовит стил писања могу да осетим мирис мора, да се осетим моћно и мотивисано, незаустављиво, јер како се каже у делу: „Талас постаје крило. Бивамо бестелесни и срећни. Летимо.“
Премда је најпознатији део у овој књизи „Разговор с Гојом“, оно што је највећи утисак оставило на мене јесте однос човека и природе и њихова међусобна повезаност, начин на који природа утиче на нас. Заиста, једна веома топла књига.
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404 reviews94 followers
October 19, 2016
Odlicna zbirka prica, a posebno "Pismo iz 1920. godine".

"Mali ljudi, koje mi zovemo "deca", imaju svoje velike bolove i duge patnje, koje posle kao mudri i odrasli ljudi zaboravljaju. Upravo, gube ih iz vida. A kad bismo mogli da se spustimo natrag u detinjstvo, kao u kupu osnovne skole iz koje smo davno izisli, mi bismo ih opet ugledali. Tamo dole, pod tim uglom, ti bolovi i te patnje zive i dalje i postoje kao svaka stvarnost."

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26 reviews1 follower
August 19, 2019
"I ja se tada sjećam. Zemlje i mora, lica i riječi, utisci i saznanja koji se javljaju preda mnom imaju boju i oblik minulih doživljaja. Jedan jedini izuzetak u tom pravilu jeste: Bosna. Sarajevo i Bosna, kako se kaže u pjesmi. Njih se ne sjećam, jer ih nikad nisam ni zaboravio, oni stoje trajni i stvarni preda mnom, neizmjenjeni i živi, jer ne podliježu ni sili zaborava ni magiji sjećanja, jer sam ih uvijek nosio u sebi, jer nikad nisam ni prestajao da živim u njima. To mi postaje naročito jasno u ove novemberske dane bogate uspomenama."
Profile Image for Sladjana Savic.
37 reviews
July 8, 2018
When I read Andric's words, I feel like I talk to an old friend but who always surprises me. Five stars are too little for him.
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339 reviews7 followers
December 31, 2025
Staze su krivudave, lica preobražena a predjeli u magli
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