Milorad Pavic: Author of the experimental novel ‘Dictionary of the Khazars’
A dictionary is a book that, while requiring little time every day, takes a lot of time through the years.” So noted Milorad Pavic in his all-absorbing Dictionary of the Khazars (1982). This was no plain historical work about a vanquished 10th-century Caspian race. Subtitled “a lexicon novel in 100,000 words” it is divided into three sections, each arranged as a reference work, one overlapping …

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