The Slave Girl

and other stories about women
Author: 
ISBN: 
978-963-9776-42-5
paperback
Out of print
Introduction by Zoran Milutinović
Part of series: 
Publication date: 
2009
580 pages

A string of newly translated as well as already published stories by a real classic of East European literature. Andrić, novelist and short story writer of Croatian descent from Bosnia who identified himself as a Serbian, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961 “for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country.” While the volume includes numerous examples of the oppression of women and the disaster that ensues if any should defy the established rules, thereby evoking the fabric of this society, Andrić has also woven into it a more personal experience of the categories which society assigns to women.

Widely read in the whole of Eastern Europe, and a favorite for addressing themes of general concern in the region, the fervor of his prose catching, the boldly romantic plots speak to all alike. A preface by Celia Hawkesworth and an introduction by Zoran Milutinović, top specialists of southern Slav literatures are useful in providing a background both in historical and intellectual terms.

Acknowledgments

Preface by Celia Hawkesworth

Introduction by Zoran Milutinovic

The Wisdom Effect—Ivo Andrić the Storyteller

Love in the Kasaba

An Uneasy Year

Ćorkan and the German Tightrope Walker

Byron in Sintra, Maltreatment

The Surveyor and Julka

Ojujaci

Thirst

Miracle at Olovo

In the Camp

The Slave Girl

Zuja

Loves

Woman on the Rock

The Pasha’s Concubine

Anika’s Times

A Family Portrait

The Snake

The Tanners

The Game

An Ivory Woman

Jelena

the Woman Who Is Not

Glossary

A Key to Pronounciation