Summary
Milorad Pavić: The inside of the wind
He was half of something. A strong, beautiful and gifted half of something, which was perhaps even stronger, bigger and more beautiful than him. He was, therefore, the magical half of something magnificent and unfathomable.
And she, she was a complete whole. A small, disoriented, not very strong or harmonious whole, but a whole...
Milorad Pavić was nominated for the Nobel Prize for no reason. The Inner Side of the Wind or The Novel of Hera and Leandro (1991) is an hourglass novel with two title pages and a mid-book ending. It was chosen as the best prose book in 1991 (Borisav Stanković Award). It has been translated into ten languages. Pavić's work is a complex linguistic and formal sequence, one of the most original and complete in today's literature. Pavić's work is a complex linguistic and formal sequence, one of the most original and complete in today's literature.
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