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

摘要

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