Dictionary of the Khazars

by Milorad Pavic

Overview

Odin iz krupnejshih prozaikov HKH v. serbskij pisatel' Milorad Pavich (1929 - 2009) - avtor romanov, mnogochislennyh sbornikov rasskazov, a takzhe literaturovedcheskih rabot. Vsemirnuyu izvestnost' Pavichu prines "roman-leksikon" "Hazarskij slovar'" - odno iz samyh neobychnyh proizvedenij mirovoj literatury nashego vremeni. EHta kniga vyhodit za predely tradicionnogo linejnogo povestvovaniya, priblizhayas' k ehlektronnomu gipertekstu. Nedarom kritiki pisali o Paviche kak o "rasskazchike, ravnom Gomeru", a samu knigu nazvali komp'yuternoj "Odisseej". Izdatel'stvo predlagaet chitatelyam muzhskuyu versiyu romana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389120587
Publisher:	Azbooka
Publication date:	08/16/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	871,029
File size:	2 MB
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Milorad Pavić was a much loved writer, specializing in poetry, short stories, and literary histories. Pavić was born in Serbia. His works have gained acclaim worldwide, with translations of his titles existing in over thirty languages.  Pavić  was not only popular in his native Serbia, he also reached great acclaim in South America and Europe, where he was considered to be one of the greatest writers of his time. Pavić is the author of Dictionary of the Khazars, Landscape Painted with Tea, Second Body, and many more.

Editorial Reviews

Available in slightly differing ``male'' and ``female'' editions, the narrative purports to be the historical record of the Khazars, a fictional Indo-European tribe that vanished in the 10th century. ``Pavic is a 20th-century Scheherazade,'' acknowledged PW . ``Readers who are intrigued by literary conundrums will enjoy entering this magical world with Pavic as their guide.'' (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Christina Pribicevic-Zoric. LC 88-45262. $19.95. f Yugoslav writer Pavic assures us that the Khazars were a nomadic people who settled near the Black Sea in the 7th century A.D. ``But their origins remain unknown and all traces of them have vanished.'' A thousand years later a Polish printer incorporated surviving knowledge of the Khazars into a dictionaryalmost all copies of which were burned by the Inquisition. Pavic's interlocking series of witty and fantastic tales purports to update that edition, but by now all ``facts'' about the forgotten nation are doubly conjectural. As if the truth weren't problematic enough already, Pavic has even produced his lexicon in ``male'' and ``female'' versions differing by only a few (highly significant!) words. This congeries will delight readers of Borges and Calvino, although libraries will need to buy both editions to satisfy them.Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.

Library Journal

....The novel gives a tantalizing life-after-death illusion of an inexhaustible unending text. -- The New York Times Books of the Century

Charles McGrath

"All its delights...the structural novelty and the comic inventiveness of the imagery...[are] an ebullient and generous celebration of the reading experience."

— The New York Times Book Review

"As with Borges or Garcia Marquez...[Pavic] knows how to support his textual legerdemain with superb portrait miniatures and entrancing anecdotes." — Washington Post Book World

Translated from the Serbo-Croatian

by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric

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