Dictionary of the khazars milorad pavic, dj art kang yi on. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dictionary of the khazars androgynous edition. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 354 pages and is available in paperback format. Up to 20 books are listed, in descending order of popularity. The books conceit is that it is a facsimile of a dictionary of the khazars compiled in poland during the 1600s, but banned by the inquisition and destroyed the year after it was printed. 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. The dictionary is purportedly a translation of the only surviving copy of a book written in the seventeenth century, when khazar scholarship was in.
Hazarski recnik by milorad pavic, 1988, vintage books edition, in english 1st vintage international ed. The novel takes the form of three crossreferenced miniencyclopedias, sometimes contradicting each other, each compiled from the sources of. I like my weirdness in controlled doses, when it gets too much i find my enjoyment slipping and this whole book was an exercise in jumping the shark at fairly much every opportunity. It will guide to know more than the people staring at you. We are also alerted, warned even, that one paragraph again, authors caps is critically different in each edition. Milorad pavics dictionary of the khazars was translated from the serbocroatian and first published in english in 1988. Dictionary of the khazars by milorad pavic me like books.
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The book ostensibly is a dictionary in christian, moslem, and jewish versions no less of the main figures of this worsethanobscure people. Milorad pavic s most popular book is dictionary of the khazars male edition. Milorad pavids khazar dictionary is currently one of the most popular books in yugoslavia. Notes on reading dictionary of the khazars by milorad pavic. Dictionary of the khazars by milorad pavic abebooks. Dictionary of the khazars by milorad pavic nook book. Its written more like an encyclopaedia than a dictionary, and more like a book of mythologyfolklore than an encyclopaedia. In culinary terms, the book is neither tofuburger nor. The book is essentially the story of the khazars and their conversion to christianity, judaism and islam.
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