Sat, Oct 10, 2015
Childhood and adolescence of Ivo Andric were marked by his father's death, separation from his mother, growing up in the heart of the multicultural Bosnia - Visegrad, and maturity in Sarajevo. Little-known details from the formative years of Ivo Andric are followed by the growing up of the rebellious poet, whose wings were roughly cut short by World War I.
Sat, Oct 17, 2015
Andric's youth disappeared too soon in the face of the horrors of war and gruesome labour in the Austro-Hungarian prison. A more mature and more cautious Andric arrives to the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Belgrade - with an aura of a doomed young poet, and begins to write prose. He is seen, for the first time, by the eyes of a woman who will never leave him, even when he falls in love with another. Through a set of circumstance he enters into diplomacy, while his literary reputation is growing rapidly. He receives a call from an influential secret society which only confirms Andric's status in the cultural elite of the Kingdom.
Sat, Oct 24, 2015
During the twenties and the thirties of the 20th century, Ivo Andric is Kingdom of Yugoslavia state representative in all major centres of power in Europe (the Vatican, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Trieste, Bucharest, Graz ...). During this period, he experiences fatal love and by her side lives through the most terrible war the world has ever seen. The beginning of World War II finds him as the ambassador of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Berlin! The life and writing under German occupation of Belgrade - are less terrible than the ethical and moral dilemmas of a man who wants to live only if he remains a man.
Sat, Oct 31, 2015
Ivo Andric as a bridge between the cultures of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and, the new, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, suffers blows on both banks. But the Drina - the river of his childhood taught him to tame the currents and Andric manages to emerge stronger and brighter than ever. His literary work - is crowned with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. Among others, Andric also receives congratulations for the award from Josip Broz Tito, even though their relationship was complicated and controversial. Finally, Andric experiences the golden autumn of his turbulent life and career only to have, as he says, "in an instant, all that was mine is burnt out".