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Article: Dictionary of the Khazars as an Epistemological Metaphor.(Critical Essay)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- June 22, 1998
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Comments, reviews, articles, and monographs on Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars demonstrate a wide range of ways of approaching, understanding, and interpreting this fascinating, bewildering, and bewitching "Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words." This novel acquaints the reader first of all with a kind of infinite book of the world or of nature, a kind of absolute book, as discussed and propagated by German romantic writers (F. Schlegel, Novalis). In this reading experience one very quickly loses interest in the Khazars, their history, even their tragic fate. One is caught by the legibility of the absolute book as a fascinating means of reading the book of the world, ...
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