Pavic, Milorad

Born in Belgrade, in his own words, "... on the banks of one of the four rivers of paradise, at 8:30 in the morning in the family of a sculptor and teacher of philosophy ...". Among the writer's ancestors there were writers before him - in 1766, one of the Pavichi clan, Emerik Pavich, published a collection of poems, and his uncle, Nikola Pavich, was a famous writer of the mid-20th century.

In 1949 - 1953 he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade . He later received a Ph.D. in literary history from the University of Zagreb .

Before devoting himself entirely to literary work, M. Pavic taught for some time at various universities (in the Paris Sorbonne , in Vienna , Freiburg , Regensburg and Belgrade ). He was a mentor to the Serbian writer and literary critic Sava Damyanov ^[5] . His first poetic collection ( Palimpsesti ) was published in 1967 . In 1971, the following poetic collection “Moonstone” ( “Mesechev Kamen” ) was published.

In addition, M. Pavic worked in newspapers, wrote critical works, monographs on the history of ancient Serbian literature and poetry of symbolism, translated poems from European languages.

The novel “ Khazar Dictionary ” ( 1984 ), which became a bestseller, brought fame. For this novel, Pavich was awarded the NIN magazine prize .

Pavic spoke Russian , German , French , several ancient languages, translated Pushkin and Byron into Serbian. Member of Société Européenne de Culture , member of the Serbian PEN Club .

He was married to Yasmina Mikhailovich (Serbian writer, literary critic and literary critic). He had two children, a son Ivan and a daughter Elena.

He died on November 30, 2009 in Belgrade at the 81st year of life from myocardial infarction ^[6] and was buried on December 3 at the New Cemetery ^[7] .

Milorad Pavic became famous thanks to his unusual style and form of narration. Combining the fascination of the story, he at the same time creates intellectual prose, filled with knowledge of history, theology, folklore and literature, which does not characterize his works as mass literature. He also made the reader a co-author of his works, introducing different ways of reading into the novel.

Pavic's poetry was translated into English and became part of the anthology "Modern Yugoslav Poetry."

The prose of M. Pavich is characterized by mastery of forms, the ease of language, brilliant metaphors, attention to philosophical problems. Many of his works (“ Khazar Dictionary ”, “ Inner Side of the Wind ”, “ Landscape Drawn by Tea ”, etc.) are written in the form of nonlinear prose . According to Yasmina Mikhailovich, these novels and storybooks are best understood in the form of hypertext .

The first novel of the writer, which received fame in the world and was translated into 20 languages, was the "Khazar Dictionary" (1984). Written in the form of a dictionary, the structure of which is written so that the complete work can be started from anywhere in the book. This novel tells about the semi-mystical Khazar tribe. Their leader invites a Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim to explain his mystical dream to him. His tribe will convert to the religion of the one who interprets his dream in the best way. The interpreters are preparing their three versions of the dream, which will become part of this novel. Readers called the Khazar Dictionary "a manuscript in which the Universe is encrypted."

Another writer’s novel “Landscape Drawn by Tea” (1988), written in the form of a crossword puzzle that can be read both horizontally and vertically. The novel tells the story of an architect who, traveling from Belgrade to Greece, is trying to find traces of his father who went missing during the Second World War. The theme of this novel is time, the soul of a person, love, hatred, jealousy and death.

Pavich is also the author of other novels, “The Inner Side of the Wind,” “Last Love in Constantinople,” which are distinguished by a high degree of imagination and destroy traditional notions of prose.

The novel “The Inner Side of the Wind” (1991) is the groundbreaking novel clepsydra . That is, the novel can be read to the middle, and then start reading from the other end. The novel is also rich in symbols, metaphors and other artistic images.

Fortune-telling novel “Last Love in Constantinople”, consisting of 22 chapters, each of which bears the name of one of the Tarot cards . Thus, the sequence of chapters depends on the choice of the reader, and the fate of the characters depends on the choice of chapters.

Pavich’s yet another experimental novel, The Writing Supplies Box (1999), has two finals. The first can be read in the book, and the other only on the Internet at the email address indicated on the page. You can also combine electronic and paper versions.

The novel-astrological reference book “Star Mantle” (2000), in which Pavich described all the signs of the zodiac , tells of various eras, realities and fates, and describes mysterious previous lives.

In the detective novel “Unique Novel” (2004), the author completely gives the reader the opportunity to become a co-author of the novel, leaving blank pages for writing his own version, or choosing one of one hundred possible endings.

He was also the author of several plays, “Eternity and Another Day” (1993), “Bed for Three” (2002) and “Glass Snail” (2002).

• Milorad Pavic’s books have been translated into 30 languages, including Russian, English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hebrew.

• In 1991, he was elected to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

• In 2004, he was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature . I did not receive it, losing to Elfrid Jelinek during the voting.

• The Iron Curtain ( Serb. Gvozdena Veil ), 1973
• “The Horses of St. Mark” ( Serb. The Kings of the Mark Mark ), 1976
• "Russian Greyhound" ( Serb. Ruski HRT ), 1979
• " Khazar Dictionary " ( Serbian. Khazarsky river ), 1984
• “Landscape Drawn by Tea” ( Serb. Predekan Clicked by Tea ), 1988
• “Inverted Glove” ( Serb. Gauntlet Twisted ), 1989
• “Biography of Belgrade” ( Serb. Brief History of Beograd ), 1990
• “The Inner Side of the Wind (A Romance of Hero and Leander)” ( Serb. Unutrasha Wind Country ), 1991
• “Last Love in Constantinople” ( Serb. Last Kubav at Tsarigrad ), 1994
• “Glass Snail” ( Serb. Stakleni Puzh ), 1998
• “Box for writing instruments” ( Serb. Kutiјa for writing ), 1999
• "Star Mantle" ( Serbian. Zvezdani plate ), 2000
• “Terrible Love Stories” ( Serbian. Terrible Ghosts ), 2001
• “The Seven Deadly Sins” ( Serb. Sedam of the Dead Sins ), 2002
• “Invisible mirror - Variegated bread” ( Serb. Invisible looked around - Shareni bread ), 2003
• “A Unique Novel” ( Serb. Unicat ), 2004 ^[8]
• “Roman as a Power” ( Serb. Roman Kao Dzhava ), 2005
• “A wedding in a bathhouse” ( Serb. Wedding at a bathing party), 2005
• “Another body” ( Serb. Another body ), 2006 ^[9]
• “Paper Theater”, ( Serb. Pozorishte od Charter ), 2007
• “Mushka” ( Serb. Veshtachki youth , doc. “ Artificial mole ”), 2009
• “Serbian Book of the Dead” ( Serb. Srpska kiga of the dead, not finished, nothing is known about the prospects of publication), 2009

Films

• “Byzantine Blue” ( Serbian. Byzantine fluent ), director Dragan Marinkovic, 1993
• The Red Queen ( Serbian. Crvena Krajitsa ), director Miroslav Medzhimurets, 1981
• “Glass lamp”, director Nikolay Chepuryshkin, 2009
• “Yusuf Masudi. Dream Catcher, director Ekaterina Beloborodova, 2014

Comics

• “The Third Argument” ( Serbian. Three Arguments ), screenwriter Zoran Stefanovich , artist Zoran Tutsich, 1995

Music

• The Khazar Dictionary was the motive for the Russian composer Vladislav Malakhovskaya to write a concert of the same name for harp, oboe and string orchestra.

Other

• The Khazar Dictionary inspired Neil Krishnaswami to create a lexicon forum role-playing game .

“I was the most famous writer of the most hated people - the Serbian people” ^[10] .
“If you move in the direction in which your fear grows, you are on the right track” ^[11] .

• Petrovich, Goran
• Andrich, Ivo

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• Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century / Ed. by Steven R. Serafin. 1999. Vol. 3.
• Kuznetsov I. R. Regular dream park (Following the footsteps of Milorad Pavic. Fragments of the dictionary) // "Foreign Literature". 1995. No. 12; His own. A water clock, or a novel of time with eternity (About Milorad Pavic) // "Yasnaya Polyana". 1997. No. 1; His own. About Milorad Pavic, which really exists // "New World". 1997. No. 11.
• Gladkova O. V. Slavic antiquities of Milorad Pavich (about the novel "Landscape painted by tea") // Gladkova O. V. About Slavic-Russian hagiography. Essays. M., 2008.S. 204-217.

• Quotes from the works of Milorad Pavic
• Alexander Sokolyansky. Interactive all-inclusive lunch
• Ivan Zorin. Pavic
• Pavic. Bibliography instead of biography (inaccessible link)
• Vladislav Malakhovskaya. "Khazar Dictionary" concert for harp, oboe and string orchestra based on the novel of the same name by Milorad Pavich