Mitic şi magic în romanul „E un pod pe Drina”
Mythic and Magic in the Novel The Bridge on the Drina

Summary/Abstract: The recurrence of the history, myths, legends and popular beliefs of Bosnia found in the novel The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić facilitates the study of its mythical and magical hypostasis. Starting from the main critical approaches focused especially on its quality of historical novel, we propose the analysis of this literary work through the prism of two types of discourse designed to highlight the mythical and magical consonants of this novel’s substrate. The research analyzes, first of all, the historical discourse based on the rendering of the significant events in the reality of Bosnia between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. It coexists with the discourse that we have called mythic, which originated from local myths, legends and popular beliefs, and is also the object of study of the present paper. The insertion of myths, legends, archetypes of the Balkan area, magical realist elements and numerous fissures generate the mythical discourse. Organizing the argumentation according to the discourses identified reveals the particularities within the narrative. The fluctuations identified between mythization and demitization, between belief in the supernatural and the search for causality incline the balance in favor of the historical discourse, founded on the mythical one.

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