Milorad Pavić (writer)

Milorad Pavić (Cyrillic Милорад Павић; * October 15, 1929 in Belgrade, † November 30, 2009 ) was a Serbian writer.

Life

Pavic wrote prose, poems and was a historian of Serbian literature from the 17th to the 19th century. He was a specialist in baroque and Symbolism, translator of Pushkin and Byron and professor at the University of Novi Sad (1974-1982) and Belgrade ( 1982-1992 ). From 1991 he was a member of both the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Société européenne de culture. He lived in Belgrade and was married to the writer and literary critic Jasmina Mihajlovic.

Building its non-linear and interactive novels

Milorad Pavić became famous mainly due to the nonlinear and interactive construction of his novels. He was of the opinion that the reader should decide for themselves how he will read his novels.

• The novel The Khazar Dictionary is like an encyclopedia: it consists of various articles which are linked by cross-references. It is about a polemic between representatives of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faith. The course is presented from all three perspectives; Therefore, the lexicon consists of three alphabetical parts, with central articles are redundant and content often differ in important respects. It is left to the reader what he is reading the article in which order.
• Landscape is painted in tea as a crossword puzzle built.
• The inward side of the wind, or The Novel of Hero and Leander tells the story of a man and a woman (based on the Greek myth Hero and Leander ). The book can be read from both sides ( from the first side to the center and from the last page to the middle ). Thus, the two main characters meet literally in the middle of the book.
• The Last Love in Constantinople Opel is a novel whose history is decided by the reader by laying tarot cards. Each card belongs to a chapter of the book.
• A chest for writing utensils is a novel in which the reader opens gradually the various subjects an old trunk and discovered their secrets. The order chosen by the readers themselves

The Khazar Dictionary and The Last Love in Constantinople Opel exist in two versions - a male and a female version, which differ only in a few critical points.

Works

• The Khazar Dictionary. Lexicon novel in 100,000 words ( " Hazarski Rečnik ", 1984). Hanser, Munich, 1988 ( 2 issues ) Female specimen: ISBN 3-446-15200-8.
• Male specimen: ISBN 3-446-15077-3.