Word: novelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daughter of a field marshal, Horn wrote about how she was dragged through various battlesites during the Thirty Years' War and was married and widowed by the time she reached her late twenties. In his book, Mitchell makes the point that Horn's biography is actually an "unintentional novel" and "the most interesting work of Swedish literature of that century...
...HIGH ROAD by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The Irish author made her reputation writing about headstrong girls dashing toward the flame of maturity; her tenth novel portrays women who have come out on the other side, badly burned...
History has recorded traces of a people known as the Khazars, who thrived in the Caucasus region sometime between the seventh and eleventh centuries A.D. and then disappeared. They are not necessarily the subject of Dictionary of the Khazars. Instead, this novel disguised as a reference book seems to be dealing with some different Khazars, who occupied roughly the same space and time but who also possessed some otherworldly abilities. They numbered among their midst, for example, a cult of dream hunters, who could invade and move freely through the night thoughts of others. Unfortunately, these Khazars began to come...
...handle in Dictionary of the 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...
This is actually true. Browsing through the alphabetized entries in this novel is not only possible but pleasurable. Under "Brankovich, Avram," for example, a figure of speech is given new life: "The daughter had taken all her best features from her mother, who after birth remained forever ugly." The definition of kaghan includes the following detail: "The kaghan always shared power with a coruler and was senior to him only to the extent that he was the first to be wished a good day." And then there is "Cyril," which sets forth its subject's illustrious life, including his attempt...