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Last love in Constantinople
Last love in Constantinople: a tarot novel for divination | Milorad Pavi?
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In 1988 Milorad Pavic burst upon the literary scene with his critically acclaimed, international best seller, Dictionary of the Khazars. In it he asked his readers to experience his book in a new and exciting way, as he challenged their traditional concepts of the reading process. In his next two novels, Landscape Painted With Tea and The Inner Side of the Wind, he continued to challenge as he joined a modern Odyssey with a crossword puzzle, and then he told the same tale of two lovers from two perspectives -- male and female -- and asked us to read it from either front or back. His new novel, Last Love in Constantinople, does not disappoint, as Pavic once again demonstrates himself to be a master of narrative legerdemain.
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The structural conceit (read the chapters in whatever order you deal the tarot deck) is more fascinating than illuminating, but the pace is crisp and enjoyable. The characters tend to speak in a(n appropriately Eastern European and mystical) register of parable and metaphor, but it works for the narrative and milieu. As you can tell from my sentences, I‘m not enthralled, but I liked reading it. A mediocre fortune is better than foretold doom.