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...measure of the degree of tension, not to say the depths of paranoia bedeviling the country. When they arrived at the federal parliament in Belgrade last week, two Croatian Deputies and their bodyguards were obliged to check their handguns at the door. The gun toters all went home later in one piece, but that was more than could be said for the state of the nation. As of last week, leaders of Yugoslavia's six contentious republics had held four fruitless rounds of talks in an effort to resolve a fateful drive toward secession, and the roiling crisis is tearing...
DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS: A LEXICON NOVEL by Milorad Pavic (Knopf; $19.95). A wacky, totally fabricated reference book, translated from Serbo-Croatian, about a people that vanished centuries ago. Sheer oddity mixed with eerie entertainment...
...DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS: A LEXICON NOVEL by Milorad Pavic (Knopf; $19.95). A wacky, totally fabricated reference book, translated from Serbo-Croatian, about a people who vanished centuries ago. Sheer oddity mixed with eerie entertainment...
DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS: A LEXICON NOVEL by Milorad Paviac (Knopf; $19.95). A wacky, totally fabricated reference book, translated from the original Serbo-Croatian, about a people who vanished eight or so centuries ago. Sheer oddity contributes to the eerie entertainment...
...Khazars. Not only does it pretend to reassemble and update its imaginary 1691 predecessor, but it also comes in two forms, a male and a female edition, which differ in only one passage of just under 15 lines of text. Most astonishingly, this novel, translated from the original Serbo-Croatian, has ) become a best seller in France and Germany; its Yugoslav author, Milorad Pavic, 59, a professor of literary history at the University of Belgrade, is well on his way to international fame...