I have read several works by the author in the original, including his essays on Goya, Bolivar and other themes. It is regretable that the publisher characterizes the author as Bosnian, succunbing to the current political pressures in the West. While Mr. Andric was born in Bosnia he lived most of his life in Belgrade, was a diplomat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was regarded as a qunitesential Yugoslav until his death in early seventies. Belgrade was, and is, intellectually and artistically the most vibrant and tolerant city in the Balkans. Mr. Andric thrived in it. To classify him as a Bosnian author is of a crudely political and tendentious intent, an undoubted insult to the man who was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.

Simon Saivil