Nad Beogradom sunce sja kao da nikad neće zaći. Ali kad stane da zalazi, u ove jesenje dane, gasi se kao žeravka u vodi. Izgleda mi kao da ne zalazi sunce samo, nego i zemlja s njim. Potone zajedno sa suncem i modra gorska kosa u daljini, a zatim počne da se gubi i sremska ravnica, da se savija kao naslikano platno. Ivo Andrić Oslobodimo li se predrasuda, ostajući na tragu osobenosti Andrićevog pripovedačkog postupka, možemo sklopiti skicu jedne posebne literarne građevine, takozvane beogradske hronike. Ta nedovršena građevina, sa jedinstvenom osnovom ali sa nepovezanim prostorijama, mogla bi da bude imaginarni model za projekciju književne rekonstrukcije novije povesti Beograda. Od „Porodične slike“ u kojoj je, na fonu ratnih događaja, data psihološka evokacija odnosa u jednoj beogradskoj građanskoj porodici, do priče o Zeki, razuđenoj istoriji ne samo jednoga junaka, nego i celoga grada, kao i drugih priča koje izrastaju iz autorovog iskustva, Beogradske priče predstavljaju književno svedočanstvo o nemirnim vremenima, dramatičnim promenama i tragičnim okolnostima kako u spoljašnjem svetu, tako i u ljudskim dušama pojedinaca koji su tom svetu pripadali.
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Ivan "Ivo" Andrić (Cyrillic: Иво Андрић) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian novelist, short story writer and Nobel prizewinner. His writings deal mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. His house in Travnik is now a Museum. His Belgrade flat on Andrićev Venac hosts the Museum of Ivo Andrić and the Ivo Andrić Foundation. After the Second World War, he spent most of his time in his Belgrade home, held ceremonial posts in the Communist government of Yugoslavia and was a Bosnia and Herzegovina parliamentarian. He was also a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country". He donated the prize money to libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His works include The Bridge on the Drina, Bosnian Chronicle (aka Chronicles of Travnik), and The Woman from Sarajevo. These were written during WW2 while he was living quietly in Belgrade and published in 1945. They are often referred to as the "Bosnian Trilogy" as they were published simultaneously and had been written in the same period. However, they're connected only thematically. Other works include Ex Ponto (1918), Unrest (Nemiri, '20), The Journey of Alija Đerzelez (Put Alije Đerzeleza, 1920), The Vizier's Elephant (Priča o vezirovom slonu, 1948; tr. 1962), The Damned Yard (Prokleta avlija, 1954), and Omer-Pasha Latas (Omerpaša Latas, released posthumously in 1977)
