MILORAD PAVIC

Khazar Dictionary : this dictionary or novel-lexicon in 100 000 words presents a rather original way to read a book, since of any place that it is read, one finds oneself there and one includes/understands what was said. It is a question for the writer of telling the life of Khazars through the principal key words defining these people through the vision of the 3 great religions (Christian, Islamic and Hebraic). A good weblink with many important words as index : http://www.colasricard.net/t/pavic.html

Its characteristic lies in the form of course but especially in a subtlety which reveals us at the end of the book the author: there are two specimens of this same book: a female specimen and a male specimen. The only difference between the two consists only of one paragraph of a score of lines. The two paragraphs brought closer one to the other to date leaves the whole mystery. Thus there are two books of 255 each one pages, having strictly the same safe contents for each one of them 20 mysterious lines!

Mr. Pavic writes in final remark: " There a young man will await it [ a girl ]. Like it, he felt loneliness by wasting its time to read the same book [ as she ]. That they are assoient together in front of a coffee cup, and that they compare the specimens masculine and female of their book. They are different. When they compare the short passage of the last letter of Doctor Dorothéa Schultz printed in italic in one and the other specimen, the book will form for them a whole, like a play of dominos, and they will not need more him... ".

Passage concerned (beginning); male specimen : " I could have made fire at this time there. The occasion could not be more favourable - in the garden it had one witness there - and it was a child. But all occurred differently. I tightened the hand and seized these upsetting pages, that I also send to you by this mail... "

Passage concerned (beginning); female specimen : " When it gave me the roller of sheets, its inch will effleura mine, and I quivered with this contact. I have the feeling that our passed and our futures were in our fingers and that they had met. This is why, when I put to traverse the text, in a few moments I lost the wire of my reading, mixing it with my feelings ".

The second book presented is the back of the wind which is composed of a book with two stories: the first is read by taking the book " normally " and the second by reversing the book and by taking it with back. The history is that legendary of Hero and the other that of Léandre, two in love whose destinies will meet... in the medium of the book.

Link towards a very complete page on Mr. Pavic

Dictionary Khazar (male or female), Belfond Editions
Landscape painted with tea, ED Belfond
The back of the wind, Belfond Editions
 

Extract of the Khazar Dictionary

... Mokadasa Al Safer: the best of the readers and hunters of dreams. According to the legend, it would have worked out the male part of the encyclopaedia khazar, whereas the female part would be the work of the Ateh princess. Al Safer did not intend its encyclopaedia, or dictionary, with its contemporaries and descendants, but it had composed it in the old language khazare of Ve century, that aucuns of them did not include/understand. It had written it exclusively for its ancestors, those which had formerly dreamed their own piece of the body of Adam Kadmon, piece which never will be again dreamed. ...
history of Adam Ruhani: If all the human dreams were gathered, one would obtain a gigantic man, size of a continent... ... salt and the dream: the letters of the alphabet khazar bear names of salted mets, and the figures carry those of the various kinds of salt, because the khazars distinguish seven from them...