Orientalist discourse in Ivo Andrić’s “Bosnian Chronicle”
Orientalist discourse in Ivo Andrić’s “Bosnian Chronicle”

Summary/Abstract: Ivo Andrić’s Bosnian Chronicle represents Travnik as a city on the frontier, the city in a fissure,“a half-open book” which through the novel turns into a symbol of mutual illegibilityof the characters. Each one of them remains in a way shut into their own ideas of the otherone standing against them, so it becomes clear that this novel writes out the discourse ofdifference. In this paper, we shall analyze the examples of Orientalist discourse which Andrićincorporated into the novel through the characters that represent the European deputies(Austro-Hungarian and French) in Travnik and through their often stereotypical attitudestowards the country to which they were sent to office.

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