Milorad Pavić

Attention: lecture piégée mais tellement agréable. Le sujet: cette "treizième tribu d'Israël", qui aurait existé aux alentours du 10e siècle pour disparaître définitivement, donne lieu à des recherches de la part d'un chrétien, d'un juif et d'un mahométan, mais qu'importe, c'est l'objet-livre qui étonne. Roman éclaté en articles de dictionnaire, mais paradoxalement très maîtrisé car l'auteur a prévenu le lecteur qui, avec un peu de patience pour l'érudition à la Borges et un peu d'attention aux multiples formulations, se réjouira de ce roman proprement fantasmagorique. L'exemplaire féminin ne comporte qu'un tout petit paragraphe différent ... mais pourquoi se priver d'une double lecture? SDM

A failed architect's search for his father, an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II, becomes a labyrinthine puzzle, inextricably bound to the history of the ancient monastery on Mount Athos.

The adventures of a Serbian cavalry officer during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel comes with a pack of tarot cards and the way they turn up determines the sequence in which the chapters should be read.

"Milorad Pavic, the brilliantly innovative author whose first novel, the phenomenal Dictionary of the Khazars, inspired readers to look at literature in a new and unique way, and whose second, Landscape Painted with Tea, virtually created a new set of directions by which to interpret fiction, now gives us The Inner Side of the Wind, a magically entertaining love story that spans two centuries."--BOOK JACKET. "In his most personal and intimate work to date, Pavic parallels the myth of Hero and Leander, telling of two lovers in Belgrade, one from the turn of the eighteenth century and the other from early in the twentieth, who reach out to each other from across the gulf of time. So that the reader is afforded the opportunity to read the novel from either lover's point of view, it is approachable from either the front cover (Hero's story) or the back (Leander's). In this way, the lovers' paths converge both figuratively and physically, ultimately joining at the center of the book, no matter whose story one has chosen to explore first."--BOOK JACKET. "In the playfully inventive manner in which it suggests new ways for language to shape human thought, The Inner Side of the Wind is everything we have come to expect from this remarkable writer: pure Pavic!"--BOOK JACKET.

339 pages : 23 cm