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VIDA TARANOVSKI JOHNSON (Medford, Mass., U.S.A.) OmerpaŠa Latas: The History of an Unfinished Novel Introduction z The initial critical response to Ivo Andric's unfinished novel Omerpaša Latas has been uniformly positive. The work clearly holds out the promise of a mas- terpiece. Separation of the "metaphysical" novel, the one Andric intended to write, from the physical reality of the incomplete text is particularly useful in treating broad thematic and philosophical issues. Yet one cannot overlook _ the unique position that the text itself occupies in Andrid's fiction. Frozen in the process of creation', it is a record of a quarter century of prose writing. This work exists both as the posthumously published manuscript Omerpasa Latas (1976) and as a series of independent fragments published since 1950. The history of its writing and publication, in particular the relationship of the fragments to the novel, illuminates the evolution of Andri?'s fiction in the last decades of his life. Thus Omerpasa Latas assumes its rightful place only when analyzed in its historical context. As is true of all of Andric's longer fiction, the conception or actual begin- ning of the work is difficult to date. The name of Omerpasa appears as
Southeastern Europe – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1982
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