The Serbian writer Milorad Pavić is the author of many collections of poems and stories, as well as works in literary studies. Pavić’s worldwide fame was brought by the novel-lexicon “The Khazars’ Dictionary”—one of the most unusual works of world literature of our time.
The novel, which critics called “the first novel of the 21st century,” brought its author—an internationally known specialist in classical philology—fame as well as the reputation of a writer of the first magnitude, opening a new chapter in the history of world literature.
It’s easy to verify the truth of this assessment: open any page of “The Khazars’ Dictionary”—a book overflowing with boundless ingenuity, as endlessly beautiful as it is, and which, as you read it, creates an inconceivably poetic and philosophical picture of all human history and culture.