A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of knowledge of the Khazars, a people who flourished somewhere beyond Transylvania between the seventh and ninth centuries. Eschewing conventional narrative and plot, this lexicon novel combines the dictionaries of the world's three major religions with entries that leap between past and future, featuring three unruly wise men, a book printed in poison ink, suicide by mirrors, a chimerical princess, a sect of priests who can infiltrate one's dreams, romances between the living and the dead, and much more.
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"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
-- 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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A novel despite its title, this spans five or more centuries and is a mixture of history, fiction and fable. This edition is intended for male readers. There is an accompanying female edition.
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Einfach klasse!! Wieder mal ein Buch dem man alles glauben möchte
und doch ist es gewissermaßen so phantastisch... aber sind es unsere 3 "heiligen Bücher" nicht auch?
Eine komplexe Mischung von Märchen, Sagenwelt, Religion und last but not least Politik: -der Streit, welcher Glauben der rechte sei. In der Chasarischen Polemik wird deutlich, daß es keine der 3 Glaubensrichtungen sein kann, oder vielmehr alle drei zusammen... Ein Werk, wie es aktueller in diese Zeit nicht hineinpassen könnte...
und doch ist es gewissermaßen so phantastisch... aber sind es unsere 3 "heiligen Bücher" nicht auch?
Eine komplexe Mischung von Märchen, Sagenwelt, Religion und last but not least Politik: -der Streit, welcher Glauben der rechte sei. In der Chasarischen Polemik wird deutlich, daß es keine der 3 Glaubensrichtungen sein kann, oder vielmehr alle drei zusammen... Ein Werk, wie es aktueller in diese Zeit nicht hineinpassen könnte...
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Von M. H. Bayliss
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I was drawn in my all the amazing reviews of this book. For the most part, Pavic lived up to the reviews -- this is a clever meta-critical look at philosophy, religion and novel writing by an astute author. You may not understand every word, but I think any good reader will pick up the majority of this book -- a challenging yet worthwhile book. I have to admit that I only read the female version and I'm a little skeptical about what difference the male version may hold, but I'd still recommend the book to all readers who enjoy texts from other cultures.
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Dictionary of the Khazars is the best book I ever read. Milorad Pavic, famous and the most popular Serbian writer, is fascinating me. Khazars are people similar to Serbs, and I think that was his main motive to write this book. Their characteristics are just like ours, their made the same mistakes as Serbs made, and everybody knows what happened to them...they dissapeared. I hope it won't happen to us. Milorad Pavic is writing in very specific style, he is writing hyperfiction. He admires Internet and computers at all and all his novels are "strange". Dictionary, crosswords, handbook for augury, "box for writing"... You should visit his homepage.
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great
i`ve read the book in original language - serbian.
it is writen as a encyclopedia in 3 parts: Christian, Jewish and Islamic
It is one of the most interesting books I`ve... Lesen Sie weiter...
it is writen as a encyclopedia in 3 parts: Christian, Jewish and Islamic
It is one of the most interesting books I`ve... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. März 2009 von AleksandraEa
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Between total fantasy and magical realism
I saw this book in a store and saw that there were two editions. This intrigued me -- why "Male" & "Female". Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. August 2000 von J. Angus Macdonald
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Between total fantasy and magical realism
I saw this book in a store and saw that there were two editions. This intrigued me -- why "Male" & "Female". Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. August 2000 von J. Angus Macdonald
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Food of life!
One of the truly great books. Stands with 100 Years of Solitude as a masterwork. Better than (most) sex. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
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Good and Evil: Men, Devils and God fight each other
This book simultaneously tells several totally distinct estories, but which are all the same. It is incredibly charming, I read it twice, some years ago, and the excerpts that I... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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An Enigma of Delight
Imagine yourself in a labyrinth where every exit is an entrance. A place that you can never realy leave because just as you think you can you find another wonder to explore which... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. April 1999 veröffentlicht
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Bravo - worth re-reading and then reading again
Pavic does something rare here - he achieves a wonderful balance among symbolism, creativity, plot, structure, prose style, and originality which is hardly seen on the fiction... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
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An essential novel for the end of the 20th century!
Although this novel comes in two versions -- male and female -- this is just a Pavician joke and it's not necessary to hunt the single altered paragraph which is the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. September 1998 veröffentlicht
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Many of facts,persons and ideas come one in this book.
There were too many writers who tried to make something new aboyt the literary form.Some never do the noticeable inovation,some are succesful once in their life. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
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A work of genius!
This novel contains more ideas than most authors would be able to invent in 400 years. And that, according to Milorad Pavic himself, is how long he has been writing for. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
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