Aleksić, Tatjana (2013). The Sacrificed Body: Balkan Community Building and the Fear of Freedom. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-7913-5. Für mich ist das Besondere dieses Buches sind nicht sein erzählerischer Inhalt und auch nicht die Sprache. Es ist seine multikulturelle Atmosphäre, seine unaufgeregte, provinzielle Stimmung und seine tiefe Menschlichkeit. Über die Jahrhunderte gelingt es den Menschen dreier Glaubensrichtungen, der orthodoxen Serben, der moslemischen Bosniaken (im Buch leider Mohammedaner bzw. Türken genannt) und der sephardischen und aschkenasischen Juden größtenteils friedlich miteinander oder zumindest nebeneinander zu lesen. Erst der Nationalismus zu Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts und schließlich der 1. Weltkrieg setzen dem ein Ende. Juričić, Želimir B. (1986). The Man and the Artist: Essays on Ivo Andrić. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-4907-7. The story then follows the bridge as it falls into disuse when Austria-Hungaria and the Serbians begin to divide. People no longer use the bridge to socialize, and people on either side grow to hate each other. Banac, Ivo (1984). The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-9493-2.

Nikolić, Maja (4 March 2021). "Muzej književnosti i pozorišne umjetnosti BiH slavi 60 godina postojanja". Hrvatski Glasnik (in Croatian) . Retrieved 28 December 2021. As Mehmed grows up, he rises up through the ranks of the army to become the Grand Vizier. Once he is appointed to this position, he demands that a bridge be built across the Drina River, because it reminds him of his mother. This bridge was meant to improve travel and to replace the ferry system.Among them is that of the bridge’s builder, a Serb kidnapped as a boy by the Ottomans; years later, as the empire’s Grand Vezir, he decides to construct a bridge at the spot where he was parted from his mother. A workman named Radisav tries to hinder the construction, with horrific consequences. Later, the beautiful young Fata climbs the bridge’s parapet to escape an arranged marriage, and, later still, an inveterate gambler named Milan risks everything on it in one final game with the devil. I recommend looking at this bridge when you read the book. It is easy to find pictures on the web of this beautiful eleven-arched stone bridge. How what happened became myth is fascinating. The Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Turkish cultures and their respective religious constraints are described through the history fo this bridge, the bridge over the Drina at Visegrad in Bosnia. Ivan "Ivo" Andrić (Cyrillic: Иво Андрић), a native Bosnian, composed short stories, mainly with life under the Ottoman Empire. His house in Travnik now functions as a museum. His flat on Andrićev Venac in Belgrade hosts the museum of and the foundation. As an example of the poetic imagery, there is the Jewish woman, Lotte, who slaves to raise her many relations from poverty, but whose business shares, in the new economic climate,"play like dust in a high wind". The huge symbolism, of course, and the steadfast pillar of the whole book, is the bridge, the bequest of the Grand Vizir, a gift to Allah. It is a thing beloved, as is the town to its people, and in their brief burst of life it seems eternal and unchanging.

His works include The Bridge on the Drina, Bosnian Chronicle (also known as Chronicles of Travnik), and The Woman from Sarajevo. He lived quietly in Belgrade during World War II and published in 1945. People often referred to this " Bosnian trilogy," published simultaneously in the same period. Only themes, however, connect them.Dulić, Tomislav (2005). Utopias of Nation: Local Mass Killing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University Press. ISBN 978-91-554-6302-1. The story begins with the idea of a "blood tax," in which the Ottomans took a young Christian boy from his mother to serve their own empire. The boy in question in this novel is converted to Islam and is renamed Mehmed. The last time he sees his mother is when she is crying for him as he is taken away on a ferry on the Drina River. On the bridge and its kapia, about it or in connection with it, flowed and developed, as we shall see, the life of the townsmen. In all tales about personal, family or public events the words ‘on the bridge’ could always be heard. Indeed on the bridge over the Drina were the first steps of childhood and the first games of boyhood. Nel discorso pronunciato all’ assegnazione del premio Nobel, nel ’61, lui stesso dice di essersi ispirato a Sherherazade, non tanto nella sostanza ma come modello narrativo in cui il narratore cerca “ di sospendere l’inevitabile condanna a morte e di prolungare l’illusione della vita e della sua durata.