Ivo Andric's works are often stereotyped in accordance with national narratives. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the text - the story and the storytelling in the friar cycle of Ivo Andric; to the indivisibility and interweaving of the narratological and hermeneutic components of the narrative. Franciscan culture marked the life and creativity of Ivo Andric in a special way: both in the choice of style, in the language and in the design of characters, themes, motifs and events. In his stories, Andric creates a literary world inhabited by friars - a picture of Bosnia mediated by Franciscan chronicles. It is not a historiographically exact work, but the author's artistic construct. Out of a total of ten novellas from the friar cycle, five of them are covered in this work; two that narrate the events of Fr. Marko Krneta and three that are narrated by Fr. Petar. The cycle about Friar Marko is framed in a simple narrative manner, and is characterized by brevity and ease of storytelling. Fr. Petar is always in the role of storyteller and most often talks about other people's experiences; he is a protagonist sui generis. For Andric's characters, Bosnia is much more than a geographical term; in the works of the great writer Bosnia is also much more for the readers: Andric's Bosna is a phrase that has entered everyday speech. Andric's positioning towards the story as a form of communication and production of the world can be seen precisely in the Franciscan stories. Andric is a storyteller whose individual narrative procedures construct a special system that could be called Andric's art of storytelling. Andric uses different narratological procedures to construct different types of storytellers, and the storytellers are often also listeners. The unique voice that the reader recognizes through different characters and/or narrators is a metanarrative instance, actually the authorship of Ivo Andric. The reader recognizes Andric's sentence regardless of whether the narrator or character utters the sentence. That sentence carries with it more than syntax; it also carries the semantics that the reader recognizes on an intuitive level.