Summary
Ivo Andrić: On the sunny side
The novel "On the sunny side" is also significant as the writer's attempt to turn a personal biography into a novel and thus narrate moods and dilemmas from the prose poems "Ex Ponto" and "Nemiri" and to dramatize his former prison experiences in a narratively more complex way and less biographically recognizable. This, it seems, did not work out for him, which is why he gave up writing novels (...) The novel "On the sunny side" was, therefore, in every respect different from the short stories that Andrić published in three books in the twenties and thirties of the 20th century. Radovan Vučković From the point of view of evolutionary criteria, the "novel" "On the sunny side" represents a bridge at the transition of Andrić's lyric phase to the epic. According to many characteristics, this prose seems closer to Andrić's early work. This is about moving the lyrical subject into an epic procedure, with the intention of forming a complete novelistic character. With his lyrical basis, the character of Toma Galus seemed unable to establish himself as a factor in the novel as a whole. Therefore, he could perhaps be understood as a kind of conscious victim of the poetic and creative maturation of his creator. Žaneta Đukić Perišić
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