Relation between storytelling and death
in Priča o vezirovom slonu by Ivo Andrić: genesis Cover Image

Однос приповедања и смрти у Причи о везировом слону Иве Андрића
Relation between storytelling and death in Priča o vezirovom slonu by Ivo Andrić: genesis

Author(s): Zorica Nestorović
Subject(s): Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Српска академија наука и уметности

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we analysed the significance of autograph version of one part in Andrić’s story Priča o vezirovom slonu in genesis of its first printed edition. Correspondingly,we reconstruct of connection between Andrić’s autograph version, his notebooks and firstprinted edition of story. The semantical potentials of that version include the question aboutnarrative strategies in characterisation and position of narrator, and thematic basically thecategory of fear, evil, death and freedom.