THE TURN AND THE PERSECUTION Years 1914-1917 Intimations of Great Achievements
THE TURN AND THE PERSECUTION Years 1914-1917 Intimations of Great Achievements

Summary/Abstract: St. Vitus’s Day as described in the novel The Woman from Sarajevo was in no way different from any other day, except for the commotion, the thunder of carriages and roaring of cars, with people dressed in parade uniforms on the Miljacka River bank. In the morning of the day that will shake the world to its core, Andrić’s heroine Rajka Radaković relishes the dream she had during the night which involved money, never suspecting that the dull explosion she has just heard is a cause for a historic alarm. Failing to understand her mother’s words that the greatest toll will be on poor Serbs again (3: 95), she is far from realizing that that day will be an introduction into new and harrowing suffering of her people.

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