This Final Thesis is about literary work of Ivo Andrić. Apart from the features of his works, this paper emphasizes the philosophy we come across while reading them. Since the events from Ivo Andrić's life strongly affected his works there will be a unit with his biography. Afterwards, the features of his works will be pointed out and divided into two stages: in the earlier stage he writes lyric poetry and prose poetry and in the mature stage he turns to short stories and novels. From the works created in the earlier stage of writing, the focus will be on Ex ponto and Nemiri which contain the main characteristics of the stage. Novels Travnička kronika, Na Drini ćuprija, Prokleta avlija and Gospođica will be pointed out from the later stage of writing in order to represent its main features. The emphasis, above all, will be on the novel Na Drini ćuprija and it's symbolism of the bridge, the focus will also be on the behaviour of the community and the behaviour of an individual, and on the impact of the politics on the people's lives in the small and remote Bosnian town as well. Finally, the conflict between the East and the West in the novel will be noted and commented. In this way the philosophy from Ivo Andrić's works should be fully perceived