Milorad Pavić

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Milorad Pavić

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October 15, 1929 in Belgrade, Serbia

died
November 30, 2009

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Milorad Pavić was a Serbian poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian.

Pavić wrote five novels which were translated into English: Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel, Landscape Painted With Tea, Inner Side of the Wind, Last Love in Constantinople and Unique Item as well as many short stories not in English translation.


Average rating: 4.06 · 2,209 ratings · 169 reviews · 49 distinct works
Dictionary of the Khazars
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,213 ratings — published 1984 — 31 editions
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Landscape Painted with Tea
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 1988 — 16 editions
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The Inner Side of the Wind,...
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1991 — 13 editions
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Last Love in Constantinople...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions
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Yaschik dlya pis'mennykh pr...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions
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Siete pecados capitales
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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Unique Item
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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Zvezdani plašt
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions
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Dictionarul khazar
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Стъкленият охлюв
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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More books by Milorad Pavić…
“When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.”
Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words

“Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.”
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“And he gave me a few of the Xeroxed sheets of paper lying on the table in front of him. As he passed them to me, his thumb brushed mine and I trembled from the touch. I had the sensation that our past and our future were in our fingers and that they had touched. And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago. I gained and learned more by not reading than by reading those pages...”
Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel - Female Edition

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