Povestiri despre femei

by Ivo Andrić

Povestiri despre femei este un tablou magnific al Bosniei sfârşitului de secol XVIII şi începutului de secol XIX, dar şi o reflecţie asupra locului pe care această lume eteroclită, zguduită întruna de frământări politice îl atribuie femeilor. Creând o galerie de portrete subtile şi emoţionante, Ivo Andrić urmăreşte destinele mai multor femei, adesea dependente sau oprimate, împinse la un trai în marginea societăţii, care plătesc scump păcatul de a-i fi încălcat legile. De la Mara, creştina devenită amanta unui paşă, care îşi duce zilele copleşită de ruşine, la Jelena, femeia-metaforă care este doar o proiecţie a căutării de sens a bărbatului, o himeră la care nu poate ajunge, însă după care tânjeşte veşnic, femeile din povestirile lui Ivo Andrić rămân întipărite pentru totdeauna în memorie.

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being released following a general amnesty for such cases in July 1917. After the war, he studied South Slavic history and literature at universities in Zagreb and Graz, eventually attaining his PhD. in Graz in 1924. He worked in the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1924 to 1941. In 1939, he became Yugoslavia's ambassador to Germany, but his tenure ended in April 1941 with the German-led invasion of his country. Shortly after the invasion, Andrić returned to German-occupied Belgrade. He lived quietly in a friend's apartment for the duration of World War II, in conditions likened by some biographers to house arrest, and wrote some of his most important works, including Na Drini ćuprija (The Bridge on the Drina).
Following the war, Andrić was named to a number of ceremonial posts in Yugoslavia, which had since come under communist rule. In 1961, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, selecting him over writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck and E.M. Forster. The Committee cited "the epic force with which he ... traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from his country's history". Afterwards, Andrić's works found an international audience and were translated into a number of languages. In subsequent years, he received a number of awards in his native country. Andrić's health declined substantially in late 1974 and he died in Belgrade the following March.
In the years following Andrić's death, the Belgrade apartment where he spent much of World War II was converted into a museum and a nearby street corner was named in his honour. A number of other cities in the former Yugoslavia also have streets bearing his name. In 2012, filmmaker Emir Kusturica began construction of an ethno-town in eastern Bosnia that is named after Andrić. As Yugoslavia's only Nobel Prize-winning writer, Andrić was well known and respected in his native country during his lifetime. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, beginning in the 1950s and continuing past the breakup of Yugoslavia, his works have been disparaged by Bosniak literary critics for their supposed anti-Muslim bias. In Croatia, his works had occasionally been blacklisted following Yugoslavia's dissolution in the 1990s, but were rehabilitated by the literary community. He is highly regarded in Serbia for his contributions to Serbian literature.

Reviews

[Ardelean Simona · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cât timp este copilă,ea este însăși copilăria,cu tot farmecul acesteia; când iubește, toată este numai putere și frumusețe a iubirii;când urăște,este ură intruchipată și nu cunoaște alte legi decât cele care guvernează și declanșează avalanșele,focul sau potopul;când este bolnavă,este numai boală și durere , frică de moarte și luptă împotriva ei,fără a-și aminti tot ce a fost înainte de boală și ce ar putea fi după însănătoșire. Și așa în toate. Până la capăt. "

[Roxana Truța · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un volum întrucâtva neomogen, deși povestea care pare desprinsă din cu totul alt univers e și cea mai bună.
Cred că am descoperit un condei interesant, care creionează o istorie petrecută la o aruncătură de băț și o îmbogățește cu prezențe feminine dintre cele mai diverse: rușinoase, răzbunătoare, chibzuite, nepăsătoare, focoase. Preferata mea e totuși Jelena, femeia care nu există.

[Befa Lucia]

28.02.2024