DAMN THE YARD

& quot; Cursed Yard & quot; & ndash; one of the best and most famous novels of the Nobel Laureate in Literature Ivo Andrich. This novel is based on the principle of "history in history", which allowed the writer to combine several stories at once. One of them takes place at the beginning of the last century in the Istanbul prison, where a bad luck threw a Franciscan monk from Bosnia. Another story dates back to the XV century and tells of the real fate of Jem-Sultan, who is fighting for power with his brother Bayezid II. Despite the intense plot, it is also a philosophical novel in which the parable of the rival brothers grows into a reflection on the clash of romantic and pragmatic principles, and the & quot; cursed court & quot; It is becoming not only a prison yard, but also human life itself.

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This is a whole town of detainees and guards, which Levantines and sailors of different nationalities call Deposito, and it is better known as the Cursed Court, because so he was nicknamed by the people, especially those who had the misfortune to have contact with him. Everyone who is detained and arrested every day in this huge and crowded city comes here and passes through this place, for guilt or suspicion of guilt, and the crimes here are really many and varied, so the suspicions go far, grow wide and deep. Because the Constantinople police adheres to the sacred principle: it is easier to release an innocent person from the Cursed Court than to chase the guilty through the gates of Constantinople. Large-scale and slow sorting of suspects takes place here. Some are interrogated in court, others are sentenced to short-term imprisonment, or, if it is clear that they are innocent, they are released, and others are sent into exile in distant lands. It is also a large reservoir from which the police draw false witnesses, fictitious persons and provocateurs of all stripes. So this Yard, like a sieve, constantly sifts the colorful crowd of its inhabitants, and, always full, is constantly filled and emptied & quot;