Last Love in Constantinople: A Tarot Novel for Divination
by Milorad Pavić
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A book of divination by the author of the internationally acclaimed Dictionary of the Khazars, this novel follows the fortunes of two generations of families across Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.Tags
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uenvs both are artful, playfully deconstructive stories structured in the form of tarot cards.
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The ultimate in non-linear story-telling. A series of chapters which can be read in any order to read the novel. Pavic puts a stylistic flourish on it by organizing it as a tarot deck, so that each chapter corresponds to a tarot card, and you can do your own 'reading'.
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Milorad Pavic was born in Belgrade on October 15, 1929. After receiving a doctorate from the University of Zagreb, he taught philosophy at the University of Novi Sad followed by the University of Belgrade. During his lifetime, he wrote several novels including Dictionary of the Khazars, Landscape Painted with Tea, The Inner Side of the Wind, and show more Last Love in Constantinople. He also wrote short stories, nonfiction and poetry. He died due to complications of a heart attack on November 30, 2009 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 891.82354 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Serbo-Croatian Fiction 1900–1991 Late 20th century 1945–1991
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