Born in 1929 in Belgrade, Pavić has written four novels that have been translated into English: Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel, Landscape Painted With Tea, Inner Side Of The Wind, and Last Love In Constantinople, as well as many short stories not translated to English.
Pavić's novels are somewhat unconventional:
Dictionary Of The Khazars takes the form of three encylopaedias of the Khazar people
Landscape Painted With Tea mixes the forms of novel and crossword puzzle
Inner Side Of The Wind — which tells the story of Hero and Leander — can be read back to front, each section telling one character's version of the story;
Last Love In Constantinople has chapters numbered after tarot cards; the reader is invited to use a tarot deck to determine the order the chapters are read
Last Love In Constantinople and Dictionary Of The Khazars both have male and female versions, which differ in only a few brief, critical passages.
He has also written one play. There are more than 80 translations of his writing, into many languages.
External links
Official site (http://www.khazars.com/)
Pavić's library at Project Rastko (http://www.rastko.org.yu/knjizevnost/pavic/index_c.html) - His works in Serbian, Russian and Slovene; few articles on Pavić in English, French and German
As a Writer, I Was Born Two Hundred Years Ago, by Thanassis Lallas (Interview) (http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_pavic.html)
His prose can be characterized as post-modernist one which is indicated by some of its features such as a mediatorial perception of the art, blurred boundaries between reality and imagination, disappearance of the conventional author's image and the handing over of some of the author's functions to the reader, as well as informational over-loading.
Besides, the chronotope in Pavich's prose is close to the myth's chronotope which presupposes interchangeability of time and space and cyclicity of time.
Pavich's prose is considered as a synthesis of folkloristic and modern cultural traditions.
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