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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtitle that he has written a novel "in 100,000 words," and although I doubt that the translator has followed Pavic's linguistic game that strictly, I do not doubt that Pavic himself wrote exactly 100,000 words in the Serbo-Croat. My rough estimation of the English edition comes...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...frightened off by the number of languages. Pavic composed his novell-as-dictionary in a single language, Serbo-Croatian, and Christina Pribicevic-Zoric has translated the novel into lucid English. The novel, however, is divided into three separate dictionaries, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, called the Red Book, the Green Book and the Yellow Book. To help orient the reader, Knopf's bookmakers have designed small icons, in the appropriate colors, that appear in the upper outside corner of nearly every page...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...English Dept. Plans Small-Scale Move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...test case of the new system is the English Department, where one associate professor was denied tenure last week and another is under consideration for promotion. Some English professors say that Associate Professor of English Joseph A. Boone was denied tenure at least in part because the department's senior faculty still held to the old attitudes that had formed around the Graustein system...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Faculty Moves Away From Power Politics | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...looks like it's going to be a great thing. The Quad could certainly use its own periodical," said Alan D. Hodder, an assistant professor of religion and English literature and the adviser for "Out Far, In Deep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/9/1988 | See Source »

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