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	The Bridge on the Drina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bridge on the Drina (Serbian and Serbo-Croat: На Дрини Ћуприја or Na Drini Ćuprija) is a novel written by Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić, who was awarded with a Nobel Prize in 1961.
		The construction works starts in 1566 and five years later the bridge is completed (together with a caravanserai or han), signifying a very important link between Sarajevo pashaluk (the territory of the present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)and the rest of the Turkish empire, and replacing the unreliable boat transport across the river.
		The middle of the bridge, called "the gate" is wider, and it quickly becomes a popular meeting place for people from Višegrad and the surrounding area in a relaxed mood which is still typical of present-day Turkey and most of the Balkans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_Drina (1015 words)

	Antic: Shadow of the Bridge
		From this bridge spreads fanlike the whole rolling valley with the little oriental town of Visegrad and all its surroundings, with hamlets nesting in the folds of the hills, covered with meadows, pastures and plum orchards, and crisscrossed with walls and fences and aspersed with shaws and occasional clumps of evergreen.
		The bridge is also a witness to history, for whatever happened in the town, the bridge “still stood unchanged, eternal, untouched, solid and invulnerable.” It is in the latter manifestation that the bridge becomes inseparably linked with the narrator.
		The insistence on the bridge’s permanence, on its space as the space of one’s identity is a reflection of the conditions of the subject in the “colonial” world of the Balkans, caught in-between those determinate lines of colonial possession.
	www.univie.ac.at /spacesofidentity/_Vol_3_3/_HTML/Antic.html (3363 words)

	Drina - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Drina, river, c.285 mi (460 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Piva and Tara rivers of Montenegro.
		Višegrad, a major city along the river, is the setting of the historical novel The Bridge on the Drina by 1961 Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić.
		Enamoured of a man lost between the Drina and the Boyne, VERA RULE retreated to Istanbul to find solace in the Topkapi palace, among all that remains of the elegant Turkish rococo of Sultan Ahmed III.(Features)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-drina.html (298 words)

	LEXIS-NEXIS® Academic Universe-Document
		Bridge on the Drina is the title of a great work of literature by the country's most celebrated author, Ivo Andric, a Nobel prize winner.
		The bridge was built, as the carved inscription proudly declares, in 1571 by order of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mehmet Pasha, of robust pumice stone hewn by Rade the Mason.
		For in the hidden history of Bosnia's war, the Bridge on the Drina was bloodily defiled.
	www.usna.edu /Users/history/tucker/hh367/ButcheryattheBridge.htm (2652 words)

	The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric)
		In the year 379 Theodosius divided the Roman Empire into two halves, the Eastern and the Western; the river Drina in Bosnia was the line of division and it remained a cultural border between Orient and Occident for centuries.
		He surely forgot too the crossing of the Drina at Visegrad, the bare banks on which travelers shivered with cold and uncertainty, the slow and worm-eaten ferry, the strange ferryman, and the hungry ravens above the troubled waters.
		Chandler Rosenberg's report 'Bridges on the Drina' at the Instt.
	www.grandpoohbah.net /Grandpoohbah/BookReviews/drina.htm (1121 words)

	History of Intellectual Culture 2005 Vol. 5 No. 1
		In Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina, the bridge is used as both a narrative device and a metaphor of location.
		The bridge is a reflection of the condition of the Balkan people; their entrapment in a space surrounded by colonial powers naturally creates a third liminal space in which meaning and being transform into dwelling.
		The bridge intimates to the reader an understanding that indeed it is a Balkan space creating a Balkan identity, for the bridge's existence affects the psychology of the townspeople on either side of it.
	www.ucalgary.ca /hic/website/2005/forum/apetrunic.html (4503 words)

	The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric) - book review
		In the second half of the 16th century a Turkish Grand Vizir had a bridge built over the river Drina at Vishegrad, in what is now eastern Bosnia; in 1914, during the First World War, it was destroyed by the retreating Austrians.
		The Bridge on the Drina is a novel — or more accurately, perhaps, a cross between a novel and a series of short stories — woven around the unifying subject of that bridge.
		While much is made of the contrast between the enduring stone of the bridge and the ephemeral lives of the people who lived by it, what Andriç offers is something more unusual — insight into both the continuities and the changes in human culture over a span of centuries.
	dannyreviews.com /h/The_Bridge_on_the_Drina.html (308 words)

	The Saddest Eyes I've Seen: Visegrad, Ivo Andric, and Christoslavism by Michael Sells, 7/3/96
		The famous bridge on the Drina river at Visegrad was used as a killing ground by Serb religious nationalist militias, and was the scene of sports killings.
		The story begins with the efforts to build the famous Ottoman Drina river bridge at Visegrad, a bridge commissioned by Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, the Bosnian native son who went on to become a minister to the Ottoman sultan and marry Princess Ismahan, grandaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent.
		In the first vignette, the builders are unsuccesful in many attempts to construct the bridge; after much tragedy, they are told that they need to wall up two Christian babies in masonry of the bridge in order to appease the fairies (vila).
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/postings/saddest_eyes.html (1037 words)

	Ivo Andric
		Through the metaphor of the bridge, the embodiment of human toil, Andric urged his readers to try to overcome their differences and live in harmony.
		Andric structured the novel as a series of vignettes, each one presenting some aspect of life in the town from the time of the bridge's construction to its partial destruction at the outbreak of World War I. The author's personal history also is closely associated with the bridge connecting East and West.
		NA DRINI CUPRIJA, 1945 - The Bridge on the Drina - Drina-joen silta, suom.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /andric.htm (1118 words)

	RES 295 Ivo Andric Site
		This is also one of the reasons he found answers to the dilemma of identity in Mlada Bosna, which fought for the unification of all the Southern Slavs, regardless of their national origin or religious affiliation.
		To cross a river over the bridge is to cross Lethe, the river of death and forgetting, but also to be confronted with truth and remembrance.
		For everything is transition, a bridge, the ends of which are lost in eternity, and compared to which all our earthly bridges seem like toys, bleak symbols.
	www.grinnell.edu /russian/andric.html (906 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction Series): Books: Ivo Andric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The bridge is the hero and the location of the story, which is the history of a town based on what happened on and around the bridge.
		The Bridge on the Drina is a historical novel detailing life in a Bosnian town from the height of the Ottoman empire to the First World War.
		The main reference is the bridge on the river Drina, a solid stone-bridge built in the XVI Century by Mohamad Pasha as a tribute to his native land.
	www.amazon.com /Bridge-Drina-Phoenix-Fiction/dp/0226020452 (2475 words)

	Novala, Europa.: Višegrad: The Bridge On And Over The Drina
		The fame of Višegrad results mostly from Ivo Andrić's novel "The Bridge on the Drina" and a bit from war-crimes.
		Touching the bridge is like meeting someone who is far beyond her 15 minutes of fame and has turned into an eternal superstar.
		She is beautiful, she has seen and survived the torments of 500 bloody years, she has a solid fan-community and she might burn your butt if you sit on her on a hot day in July 2006.
	sodazitron.blogger.de /stories/521010 (428 words)

	Bosnian Timeline
		After many years of struggles against the advancing Ottoman Turks, the armies of the Serbian and Bosnian kingdoms are destroyed and the Serbian king is killed on St. Vitus' Day (Vidovdan), June 28; this date is later adopted as Serbia's national day.
		A Turkish child-tribute caravan crosses the Drina, carrying the young Sokolović (1516).
		III - IV Construction of the bridge and the stone han (1567-71); story of Abidaga and Radisav.
	dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu /materials/drina.htm (644 words)

	The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric
		“The Bridge on the Drina” is the cronicle of a small town, and in particular of the focal point of that town: the bridge over the river Drina.
		The emphasis is on the evolution of a common mentality in the town, deriving from common experience and a common heritage of legend and anecdote.
		This is to contrast the transience and insignificance of individual human life with the broader perspective of life as itself enduring, a constant ebb and flow.
	www.gerila.com /knjige/katalog/446.htm (427 words)

	Comments on 21259 \| MetaFilter
		For Halloween, tales of bridges where the devil took a hand in the building: "If I help you, I'll have the soul of the first who crosses the bridge!" But the devil gets fooled...
		In the Balkans, on the other hand, the builder has to sacrifice his wife to make the bridge stand firm; the most famous is the Bridge of Arta in Greece, but there are similar stories all over.
		I've been to the bridge in Wales; it really wasn't too impressive as bridges go, but it was a fun day trip just the same.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/21259 (416 words)

	Andric's Treasury
		From this bridge spreads fanlike the whole rolling valley with the little oriental town of Višegrad and all its surroundings, with hamlets nestling in the folds of the hills, covered with meadows, pastures and plum-orchards, and criss-crossed with walls and fences and dotted with shaws and occasional clumps of evergreenes.
		The bridge was about two hundred and fifty paces long and about ten paces wide save in the middle where it widened out into two compeletely equal terraces placed symmetrically on either side of the roadway and making it twice its normal width.
		It is true that he was blind drunk at the time and passed the night on the bridge under the open sky in a temperature of –15 °C. The children used to gaze from the bank into the dark opening as into a gulf which is both terrible and fascinating.
	www.ivoandric.org.yu /html/body_andric_s_treasury.html (16024 words)

	Home > Publications >
		The Bridge on the Drina, which won its Bosnian Serb author, Ivo Andric, the 1961 Nobel Literature Prize, should be required reading for anyone trying to think seriously about the current Balkan crisis.
		But the real protagonist of this epic tale is the great stone bridge itself: an expression, and finally a victim, of the ancient passions of that turbulent region, which are now being broadcast daily into our homes in living (and, too often, dying) color.
		It is difficult not to see in this image a portrait of the Balkans: disaster after disaster, each leaving behind its residue of resentment, each contributing to a thick memory of grievance whose perpetuation (and, no doubt, embellishment) over time becomes part of the psychic rhythm of life in the region.
	www.eppc.org /publications/pubID.1899/pub_detail.asp (761 words)

	Bridges for Mostovi: Part III: Bridges elsewhere in Hr and BiH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Maslenica Bridge has been completed and will, after several years of closure, resume its function for all vehicles on Monday.” source 15
		Na Drini Cuprija, the bridge over the Drina in Višegrad.
		He built that famous bridge on the river Drina at Višegrad, which lend the title to the book by Ivo Andric.
	www.prevodi-vertalingen.com /bridgesformostovi/othersincandb/part3.html (512 words)

	Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina / Starling Lawrence, Montenegro
		Its geographic location, enhanced by the bridge and the caravanserai, caused Visegrad's stature to increase, gradually transforming the town into a veritable crossroads of economic and military activity.
		Although he wrote The Bridge on the Drina in third person from a necessarily rather detached and omniscient perspective, he seldom allowed his own views to overshadow those of his characters, whose lives were considerably more circumscribed than his own.
		At this point, the bridge becomes a setting for a series of fairly tedious reflections about and conversations among a group of young men, some of whom are college students home for the summer, some of whom are workers in the town.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_va_balkan_twofer.html (1707 words)

	From Faraway Lands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The bridge over the Drina River is suspended high above the banks, where food carts and restaurants are lined up for visitors who come to take in the waters at Gorazde.
		They crossed the bridge over the Drina and made their way outside the city to a bombed-out factory building.
		They drove back across the bridge over the Drina, where so many bodies had floated down from towns in the mountains, and into the Serb Republic.
	www.uticaod.com /news/specialreports/fromfarawaylands/quest4.htm (3208 words)

	Culture denied
		A well-known excerpt from his novel "The Bridge on the Drina" has been deemed offensive - an extract dealing with the Turkish 'blood tribute', the taking of Christian children from the territory of occupied Bosnia.
		In the examples quoted by Professor Lazarevic in the press conference called to condemn the meddling of the international community with the historical heritage of a nation there is a common thread - and that is, that it is apparently only Serbian history and literary tradition which is to be denied.
		In his most famous book, "The Bridge on the Drina", it is the sufferings of Serbs under the Ottoman occupation that he chronicled, as well as the evolution of the society which makes up today's Bosnia.
	www.srpska-mreza.com /guest/triangle/noAndric.html (2678 words)

	Novala, Europa.: Višegrad And Its Bridge Over The Drina
		"The Bridge On The Drina" is a masterpiece of literature.
		Yes, the bridge is beautiful, and the novel Andrić wrote - The bridge on the Drina - is the must to understand a little bit of Bosnia.
		That said, "The Bridge On The Drina" is one of the greatest things to ever happen to paper.
	sodazitron.blogger.de /stories/151216 (381 words)

	Ivo Andric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although his career took him to Rome, Bucharest, Madrid, Geneva, and Berlin, it was his native province, with its wealth of ethnic types, that provided the themes and psychological studies to be found in his works.
		Of his three novels, written during the second World War, two--Travnicka hronika (1945; Bosnian Story, 1959) and Na Drini cuprija (1945; The Bridge on the Drina, 1959)--are concerned with the history of Bosnia.
		The Nobel Prize committee commented particularly on the "epic force" with which he handled his material, especially in The Bridge on the Drina.
	literature.nobel.brainparad.com /ivo_andric.html (293 words)

	Europe on the Matrix: Višegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina
		It became the subject of a famous historical novel, The Bridge on the Drina, written in 1945 by Yugoslav writer, Ivo Andrič.
		Although Višegrad's bridge survived the war, it may not long survive the peace.
		Construction nearby of two hydroelectric power plants and a reservoir have raised the water level on the Drina and substantially eroded the bridge's subsurface supports.
	www.on-the-matrix.com /europe/bih_visegrad.asp (338 words)

	Yugoslavia - Assignments
		The paper should draw lines of comparison between either The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric and the subject matter of this course as presented in textbooks, lectures, discussion, and film.
		1)Apart from being a literary masterpiece, The Bridge on the Drina is a documentary, portraying in a realistic manner major events of Balkan history.
		2)Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina portrays a society of enormous ethnic and religious diversity.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /N/Petya.I.Nitzova-1/Assignments.htm (303 words)

	Yugoslavia Bank Notes
		He was raised by his aunt and uncle in a Bosnian town on the Drina River.
		There he saw the Ottoman Bridge, later made famous in his novel The Bridge on the Drina.
		Yugoslavia, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea, was composed of six autonomous republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro with two autonomous provinces within Serbia: Kosevo-Metohija and Vojvodina.
	www.tomchao.com /eu/eu66b.html (372 words)

	The Bridge on the Drina Photo Gallery by Vlado Marinkovic at pbase.com
		Like many others, it seems, I have only now just heard of the bridge due to reading the famous book.
		Just started the novel and couldn't continue until I saw an image of the bridge.
		We are so grateful for you pictures, because we are currently reading Ivo Andric's book, The Bridge on the Drina." Trying to visualize the kapia was getting to be too much.
	www.pbase.com /vmarinkovic/the_bridge_on_the_drina (229 words)

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