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Article: Milorad Pavic: "He Thinks the Way We Dream".(Critical Essay)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- June 22, 1998
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When French and American critics, writing about Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars, wrote "We are all Khazars," they meant this as a paradigm for the troubled eighties, plagued by ecological pollution, nuclear menace, and the threat of a global loss of identity. Almost one decade later, with the author's country engulfed in a savage war, the same statement sounds even more prophetic.
With three novels published in the U.S., Milorad Pavic, Serbian poet and prose writer, university professor and expert on Serbian baroque and symbolism, translator, literary theoretician and member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, remains primarily associated with his ...