#milorad pavic

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[piezasdealma]

Ljubav je nežna biljka, ljubav je uvek mlađa od nas, a mi smo, i ne osetivši to, počeli prema njoj da se odnosimo grubo. Zanemarivali smo našu ljubav, prećutkivali je, odlagali, zaboravljali, kao da smo hteli da je povredimo, osakatimo, čak ubijemo pre no što nas ubiju.

Ako svaki dan ne ukradeš od samoga sebe malo snage i vremena za ljubav, ništa od ljubavi.

Milorad Pavić

[fleurstoxiquesgarden]

dunno how to explain but i prefer to self-identify by this bimbo jan svankmajer slavic milorad pavic pagan shaman whatever-this-is princess in a cave current 93 taxidermy aestetic

[emaadsidiki]

St. Mark’s Church ⛪

[ninjavolador]

Milorad Pavić

[thesparhawke]

When you awake and suffer no pain, know that you are no longer among the living.

Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars

[readracula]

the writing box by milorad pavic

i think i liked it but im not sure if i even can say i liked something i completely failed to understand

his writing is so metaphorical and full of references to history and literature that i cannot even begin to comprehend it. definitely want to revisit it in the future, when i am (hopefully) more educated

nevertheless, i adore the way he structures his novels. in this one the narrator had bought a writing box from a waiter and is studying the items he has found within it. the story described in letters diary entries and unsent postcards reaches back to the beginning as we come back from this exploration

this is the first novel of pavic that i was actually able to finish. i started the dictionary of khazars fairly recently so i still have hopes i will return to it, but the inner side of the wind lost me completely. even so, these books are too peculiar and multilayered to give them up after only one attempt

[northwest-by-a-train]

L’Écume des jours - Boris Vian ?

added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | did not enjoy | it was OK | liked it | loved it | favorite | not interested

See, I read it in a haze as a teen as the movie was coming out and I had a thing for Michel Gondry movies then (even though really I was into Charlie Kaufman, but today I still love both). And I forgot about it somewhat. And some years later, well, I look at my bookshelves with a lot of Jason, Copi, Calvino, Delany, Kafka, Queneau, Perec, Angelica Gorodischer, Milorad Pavic, Alasdair Gray, Anna Burns, Brecht Evens, and I go wait a minute....

Basically a sedimental layer of my book taste. I take it you've loved it? Tell me more about the books you love

[iirulancorrino]

2 & 22 for the end of year book meme!

2. Did you reread anything? And what?

I never feel like I've reread a lot but when I look at my list I've done a good amount. This year along with a handful of poetry books I reread Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights, Trilby by George du Maurier, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, The Undying by Anne Boyer, An Artist of the Floating World and A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo thee goat Ishiguro, Eileen by Ottessa Moshfesh after watching the movie, The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš and Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic.

22. What's the longest book you read?

The longest was Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, which won last year's International Booker and clocks in at 739 pages. It has a lot of very short chapters though and is a pretty quick read, so that feels a little like stolen valor to brag about.

[borgevino]

looking for this as a ship dynamic. the puma is of course the idea of having one (1) emotion

(from DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS by milorad pavic)

[antimony]

adding milorad pavic's dictionary of the khazars to my bumble bff profle in the hope of eventually finding someone, anyone, irl to discuss this book with. my god!

[pazodetrasalba]

Business *and* Pleasure

Dear Caroline:

This is a very interesting post of yours! I think one of the justifications that we, the people who absolutely adore reading, can employ for our vice is that it is something eminently useful: I would need to find the data, but I am pretty sure there is a massive correlation between school success and high literacy and reading habits. As you grow older, though, the dissociation between reading for pleasure and reading for learning develops, and can end up with this slightly schizofrenic tension between the two.

In my own case, it took me a long time to start developing this schism: for good or bad, I didn't have any sort of guidance in my reads, which meant that I evolved my tastes haphazardly, with surprising little literature until my teens. My favorite stuff was mainly mythology and history, with forays into astronomy/astrology, microbiology and some comic books. Later I would become rather pedantic and picky in my reads, but some nerdy vestiges (Michael Moorcock, Tolkien, Lovecraft) have managed to survive intact till the present day.

I do think you hit the nail in the head with both book-count anxiety and a bit of a loss of that pure pleasure of reading that is sometimes absent from utilitarian or classical works. I've made an objective for this year of 4 books a month, and am doing pretty well (21 so far); some are quite dense and/or voluminous, and should actually count as 2 or 3 (like Eliezer's...). I am also striving for at least one EA-related book every 2 months (and these can be quite dry, as you well know) and one Caroline Ellison recommendation per month as well...

I was thinking about the last time I really got immersed in a book, and in that 'flow' that you talk about, but the answer (for once) is pretty easy. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I really liked Piranesi - I can't quite understand why you gave it only 4 stars, but then again, it's the type of book that is definitely my cup of tea: weird world-building in a Borges / Italo Calvino / Milorad Pavic / Orhan Pamuk kind of way, what is sometimes called 'Postmodern Magical Realism'.

Nothing wrong in reading for pure pleasure in your leisure! That is certainly a way of "maximizing your personal happiness". And right now, in the tribulations you are experiencing, some escapist reads would probably do you good.

Quote:

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me

C.S. Lewis

[magicwingslisten]

A man with a heart full of silence and a man with a heart full of quiet cannot be alike.

Milorad Pavic

[topcat77]

Milorad Pavic

[las-microfisuras]

Él era la mitad de algo. Una hermosa, fuerte y dotada mitad de algo, que tal vez era más fuerte, más grande y más hermoso que él. Era, por tanto, la mitad mágica de algo majestuoso e inescrutable. Y ella, ella era un todo. Un todo pequeño, desorientado, no muy fuerte y carente de armonía, pero un todo. 

- Milorad Pavic, La cara interna del viento. La novela de Hero y Leandro. Espasa Literaria.  Traducción de Luisa Fernanda Garrido.

-  Charlotte Rampling en El portero de noche, de Liliana Cavani

[whilereadingandwalking]

A story to calm (or terrify) your perfectionist hearts: in undergrad, two weeks before my thesis was due, my advisor told me that it didn’t have enough of an argument. We revamped the whole thing. They extended the deadline...but the new due date was plunk in the middle of a four-day event I was a captain for. I formatted and alphabetized all my footnotes the night before it was due, falling asleep at my apartment’s dining room table. When I submitted it, I realized that I’d spelled “dictionary” wrong on the first mention. My thesis was on a book called Dictionary of the Khazars. 

After my department head quietly (and very, very kindly) suggested I “just quickly fix my advisor’s title and then scan for errors” (there were so, so many typos), my department gave me honors, and a portion of my thesis was later published in the Literary Journal of Students of Balkan Studies. So the moral of the story is...I know you might feel like a mess right now. But I promise. You’ve got this.