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THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA
Na Drini Ćuprija
By Ivo Andrić
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Višegrad,Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Historical-Political Background
• Ottoman occupation of Bosnian territory• Child tribute• Great floods of late 17th Century• Serbian Revolt of early 1870s
• Austro-Hungarian occupation• Period of modernization• New people groups• Change in the place of women• Freer movement of Serbs and Jews
• Bosnian annexation from Austria-Hungary• The Balkan Wars and the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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General Background
• Novel of historical-fiction• First published in 1945 in Belgrade,
Yugoslava• Translated and published in English in 1959• 1961 winner of he Nobel Prize in Literature• Ivo Andrić
• Catholic, Croatian born in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1892
• Raised by his mother’s family in Višegrad• Active in the youth nationalist movement prior
to World War I
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Bridge on the River Drina
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The Bridge
• Constructed 1566 – 1571• Built by Grand Vezir Mehmed Pasha
Sokolli from Sokolovići – a Christian Serb that became a Muslim
• Merged East and West• Symbolized identity of Višegrad• Destroyed 1914
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Themes
Overarching concepts• Identity• Violence• AlteritySpecific Elements• Ethnicity• Religion• Language• Nationalism
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IdentityThe bridge• Unchanging and undefeatable aspect of Višegrad
life• Eternal• Link between east and west; and self and the other• Marker of divide between people groups
• Ceding of Bosnia to Austria-Hungary by the Ottomans• Turkish warning to Bosnians that their time will come
• Place of violence – impaling, beheading, and mounting of heads
• Paralysis of bridge as link between east and west• Destruction of bridge equated to abandonment by
God
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Identity
Change under Austro-Hungarian rule• Old vs. new as parallel of self vs. other• Han becomes barracks – connection to building of
bridge and Mahmed Pasha Sokolli• Freer movement of Serbs, Jews, and women• Culture and identity remain on the kapia –
traditions hold in the midst of change – Turkish times forgotten, but customs and dress remained
• Merging with the other – change of identity through customs and dress
• Bridge seen as invulnerable in the midst of change
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Violence
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Violence towards ‘the other’
Threat of violenceImpaling• Torture of ‘the other’ by ‘the other’
• Merdjan the Gipsy• Radislav Heraci of Unište
• Radislav as martyrBeheading• Decapitation of Serbs• Displaying of heads on the kapiaBanditryHanging and Prosecution of the Serbs
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Alterity
THE RULERS THE RULED
• Ottoman Turk – Muslim
• Austro-Hungarian Visitors -- 135• Ethnic groups• Czechs• Poles• Croats• Hungarians• Austrians
• Religion – Catholicism• Language -- German
• Bosnian-Serb• Orthodox Christian• Nationalist movement
• Jew• Sephardi – Spain• Ashkenazi – Galicia• Language – Judeo-
Spanish• Gipsy – ‘godless’ (56)
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Characters of Note
• Mehmed Pasha Sokolli – Serb/Turk• Abidaga – Turk• Alihodja Mutevelic -- Turk
• Opposed to violence• Unchanged through periods of violence, peace, and
change• Living through suffering, dead, waiting to be buried
• Pop Nikola – Serb • Respect without distinction of faith• “as close as a priest and a hodja” (129)• Relationship with Mula Ibrahim
• Lotte – Jew
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