by Ivo Andric · Les Editions du Rocher/Serpent à Plumes · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782842613150
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«L'Éléphant du vizir» is the collection of stories by Ivo Andrić, published by Serpent à Plumes in paperback (298 pages, in French).
Stories set in Bosnia and elsewhere. In the title story, a vizier of Travnik has an elephant brought in, which disrupts the market and frightens people until it comes to embody the ruler's cruelty. Ivo Andrić makes the Bosnian people the real protagonist of the story, against the powerful who pass by.
The original Serbo-Croatian title is «Prica o vezirovom slonu i druge pripovijetke»; the work was first published in 1947 and this French edition appeared in 2002.
For readers of stories with historical background and Balkan narrative, and for those wishing to approach the work of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić.
Ivo 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.
