Conversation with Goya/ Bridges/ Signs bu the roadside

The work which most obviously spans the categories of fact and fiction, history and legend is the Conversation with Goya (1935). Here, the author’s identification with his subject is complete. The ideas attributed to Goya are in fact Andrić’s own reflections on the nature of art, provoked by an affinity with the painter’s work. Had Andrić been interrogated as Ćamil was, he would have had to reply: “I am he”.