Participants
Jurij Murašov, University of Konstanz
Images of Scripts and Times in Ivo Andrić’s Prokleta avlija
The narration in Ivo Andrić’s Prokleta avlija extends in different historical times and spaces: the court of Sultan Bayezid II and the pope’s politics in the 15th century, a prison yard in Istanbul and a Franciscan monastery in Bosnia in the middle of the 19th century.
The paper will analyse the poetics by which the text manages to integrate those different times and spaces of history, culture and religion. Special focus will be given to the imaginations of language and to the images of writing and scripts by which the text also acquires an allegoric dimension aimed at the Yugoslav political and cultural context of the late 1950s.
