The Bridge on the Drina (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivo Andrić
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1516-1914
- Setting: Višegrad, Bosnia
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Symbolism, World War I, Sixteenth century, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Bridges, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Locales: Bosnia
Characters Discussed
Mehmed Pasha Sokolli (SOH-koh- lih), a grand vezir at the Ottoman court. When he was ten years old, he was taken away from his Serbian parents as a part of the so-called blood tribute. He is trained in Istanbul to be a janissary, and he becomes a grand vezir, the highest position a non-Turk could attain at the court. To still his nostalgia for his home country, he orders a bridge to be built at his expense across the Drina river at the town of Višegrad, which was the last place he saw his mother, who could not cross the river and follow him any longer. He...
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