Pismo prijatelju (o Andrićevoj noveli „Pismo iz 1920“)
A letter to a friend (about Andric’s short story “Pismo iz 1920”)

Author(s): Perina Meić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Short Story
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Ivo Andrić; Pismo iz 1920; Maks Levenfeld; Bosna; a letter
Summary/Abstract: Andrić’s short story, Pismo iz 1920 will be analyzed in this text. The story describes the encounter of a narrator (who doesn’t have a name) with his friend (from period of the childhood) Maks Levenfeld. Andrić’s story was often interpreted with regards to thesis which emphasizies an idea that Bosnia is country of hatred (that is the main thesis of Maks’s letter which is one part of the text). Such types of criticism often had an ideological motives and avoided to analyze complex nature of this literary text. In the basic structure of the story is the main motive which describes a relationship between a subject and authority (that fact, among others, confirms the existence psychoanalytic aspects in this text). The figure of authority is represented by Max Levenfeld’s character. Beside that Pismo iz 1920 is the story about growing up, and intellectual maturity and also story about the one’s attempts to be free from influence of authority. It is also a story about the art and its power to change reader’s point of view by ironic modus.

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