Pisarz i jego język. Przypadek Iva Andricia
The writer and his language. The case of Ivo Andrić

Summary/Abstract: A complex biography of Ivo Andrić (1892–1975) was shaped in a wide net of identityreferences: ethnocultural, religious, political, and linguistic. He was born to a CroatianCatholic family in Bosnia, he was a convinced supporter of Yugoslavism and a writer of thelanguage defined as Croato-Serbian / Serbo-Croatian diasystem. In the period of his links withthe cultural environment of Zagreb (1912–1919), he was writing according to the Croatianstandard, later basically, in Serbian, but using environmental and stylistic diversity of thediasystem in order to stress its cognitive and artistic potential. Currently, when four nationallanguage standards are developing on the basis of the diasystem: Serbian, Croatian, Bosnianand Montenegrin, reading Andrić in accordance with post-Yugoslav linguistic ideas, that iswith the awareness and conviction about the „break-up” of the Serbo-Croatian language,would necessarily lead to an absurd conclusion that the writer created his works using thecontent of various languages. Literary heritage of the great writer of Serbo-Croatian language,which remains a sociocultural fact, has been used not only by Serbian culture and language,but also by global culture – thanks to translations of the works of this Nobel laureate intonumerous world languages.

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