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Dictionary of the Khazars (the male edition)
a lexicon novel in 100,000 words

Milorad Pavić (autor)

Dictionary of the Khazars (the male edition)
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Hazarski rečnik na engleskom. Roman decenije 1982-1992.

A book can be a vineyard watered with rain or a vine-yard watered with wine. This one, like all diction-aries, is of the latter variety. A dictionary is a book that, while requiring little time every day, takes a lot of time through the years. This loss should not be underestimated. Especially if one takes into account that reading is, generally speaking, a dubious proposition. When used, a book can be cured or killed in the reading. It can be changed, fattened, or raped.

Its course can be rechan-neled; it is constantly losing something; you drop letters through the lines, pages through your fingers, as new ones keep growing before your eyes, like cabbage. If you put it down tomorrow, you may find it like a stove gone cold, with no hot supper waiting for you any more. Moreover, today people do not have enough solitude to be able to read books, even dictionaries, without harm. But to this too there is an end. A book is like a scale?it tilts first to the right until it tilts to the left, forever. Its weight thus shifts from the right hand to the left, and something similar has happened in the head?-from the realm of hope, thoughts have moved to the realm of memory, and everything is over. The reader"s ear may perhaps retain some of the saliva from the writer"s mouth, words borne by the wind with a grain of sand at the bottom. Over the years, voices will settle around that grain, as in a shell, and one day it will turn into a pearl, into black goat-cheese, or into a void when the ears shut like a shell. And least of all does this depend on the sand.

Ostali naslovi koji sadrže ključne reči: Domaći roman
Ostali naslovi iz oblasti: Domaća izdanja na engleskom , , Romani

Izdavač: Dereta; 3. izdanje, 2007; Broširani povez; latinica; 21 cm; 342 str.; 978-86-7346-628-6;