Ex Ponto; Riots; Lyrics
“Ex Ponto” (1918) is a collection of poems in which the poet talks to his soul. These records, written in exile, were an expression of the deep disappointment of a young man who, at the end of World War II, asked himself the question of the meaning of his own existence. After the collection of poems "Ex Ponto", Andrić wrote a collection of poems in the prose "Riots" (1920), in which the poetic expression had already begun to be suppressed by the narration.
Melancholics are like an aspen that trembles even when other trees do not feel the wind.Ivo Andrić (9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
Andrić was born in the village of Dolac, near Travnik in Austria-Hungary (today Bosnia and Herzegovina).
He was only two years old when his father died of tuberculosis.
Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo.
He published his first two poems in 1911 in a journal called Bosanska vila (Bosnian Fairy).
Andrić studied South Slavic history and literature at universities in Zagreb and Graz. He got his Ph.D. in Graz in 1924.
In 1918 he wrote Ex Ponto, a book of prose poetry that was published in the same year.
He worked in diplomacy from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1924 to 1941.
In 1920 published his first short story, Put Alije Đerzeleza (The Journey of Alija Đerzelez).
His first collection of short stories was published in 1924.
Two of his best-known novels, Na Drini ćuprija (The Bridge on the Drina) and Travnička hronika (Travnik Chronicle) were published in 1945, followed by the novel Gospođica (Miss).
His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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