Andric painted Bosnia as a country of compulsive hatred, whose people espouse the ideas of destruction and self-destruction, but he also always said that the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Bosnia was an occupier more civilised than Ottoman Empire, which had ruled Bosnia for several centuries.
Andric a descris Bosnia ca fiind o ţară plină de ură compulsivă, ai cărei oameni sunt mereu însoţiţi de ideea distrugerii şi auto-distrugerii, dar, de asemenea, spunea că Imperiul Austro-Ungar a fost un cotropitor mult mai civilizat decât Imperiul Otoman, care condusese Bosnia timp de câteva sute de ani.