FROM THE LOCAL CHRONICLE TO THE GREAT METAPHOR ON THE WORLD AND A MAN
FROM THE LOCAL CHRONICLE TO THE GREAT METAPHOR ON THE WORLD AND A MAN

Summary/Abstract: “I do not know a more simple as well as a more complex and obscure man in his own time.”1 That observation by Dobrica Ćosić on Andrić’s personality can also be applied onto his work. At first glance, translucent and comprehensible by itself, quite often very close to the chronicles and records, Andrić’s storytelling almost regularly provokes in the more careful reader a hint of depth and even unimaginable mystery. Hence, in our time—after the initial critical reading of Andrić’s prose in the horizon of the realistic tradition, or even in an inconsiderate interpretative perspective from which nothing can be seen but the mere “folklore construction” in its structure and meanings—there is a huge number of complex and even more complex interpretations. Of course, they also have far-reaching value implications, especially in the case of both competent and courageous interpreters, who, for example, in the work and poetics of our writer have recognized the charm of “magical realism” long before the appearance of Borges, Marquez and Rushdie.

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