[alanamosteller]

saliotthomas,
Bosniac literature is definitely not flourishing. And, since Ivo Andric won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961, he's definitely worth a read. I own the novel he won the Nobel for, The Bridge on the Drina, though I haven't yet read it. Have you, Thomas? It wasn't clear from your postings on Andric whether Conversation with Goya was the first work of his you've read or not. Is it Andric's style of writing you don't care for or the plot/theme of the book (Conversation with Goya) itself?

titania

PS Next time you'll probably think twice before disregarding your father's advice about a book . Of course, parents and children do disagree. My mum and I are having a continual debate over Andrei Bely's Petersburg. When I finally persuaded her to read it--after recommending it continually for 10+ years--she said to me, "You didn't really like this, did you?"

"....it is a well-known thing that you can never
get from bad to good through what is better,
but always through a worse state of transition..."
~Ivan Turgenev, Smoke