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A lexicon novel in 100, 000 words english and serbocroatian edition milorad pavic, christina pribiceviczoric on. Milorad pavic was a serbian poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian. In the intervening years, the book has become required reading for many collegelevel english classes. Download now the oxford dictionary of late antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in europe, the mediterranean, and the near east including the persian empire and central asia between the mid3rd and the mid8th centuries ad, the era now generally known as late. Dictionary of the khazars a lexicon novel in 100,000 words 1st vintage international ed. Such a book is the yugoslav poet and scholar milorad pavics witty and playful dictionary of the khazars, which, with its chronologically disturbed alphabetized entries and its crossreferencing symbols, allows each reader to put together the book for himself, as in a game of dominoes or cards. Pavic wrote five novels which were translated into english. One is the male edition, while the other is the female edition. The chief kindleresistant feature of dictionary of the khazars is that it is actually two books. 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. A national bestseller, dictionary of the khazars was cit. A lexicon novel in 100,000 words male international writers by pavic, milorad and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Subtitled a lexicon novel in 100,000 words it is divided into three sections, each arranged as a reference so noted milorad pavic in his allabsorbing dictionary of the khazars 1982.

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