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“The Last Love in Constantinople: Tarot Novel for Divination” by milorad pavic
“With the background of the Napoleonic wars, the members of two Serbian families, the Opujics and the Tenecki, interweave their destinies in a story of encounters and disagreements that ends in Constantinople. There, in the shadows of the majestic church of Santa Sofía, they will finally discover the secret that has led them to travel across Europe in search of themselves. The Last Love in Constantinople is a novel of love and about love written in a rose of great lyrical quality, a true catalyst for all the events, desires and secrets of its characters. Fantasy and reality, sex and death, serious humor come together in this extraordinary story, in which the woman stands as the absolute protagonist: a woman confronted with a masculine world against which her position and destiny are defined. After the novel-lexicon (Khazarian Dictionary), the novel-crossword puzzle (Landscape Painted with Tea) and the novel-clepsydra (the interior of the wind), Pavic presents the novel-tarot, an original narrative creation with two levels of reading: one conventional, chapter by chapter, and the other fragmentary, following the order resulting from the cards that are included at the end. In this way, the book, converted into a divination manual, takes on a life of its own, offering the reader the possibility of interpreting it in relation to his own life”
Taken from The book house
See also:
http://www.elcultural.es/version_papel/LETRAS/2251/El_ultimo_amor_de_Constantinopla
http://www.amazon.com/%C3%BAltimo-amor-Constantinopla-novela-adivinaci%C3%B3n/dp/8446013320
The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in having access to them, you can check their availability in the Library catalog.
The Last Love in Constantinople [Print]: Tarot Novel for Divination / Milorad Pavic; Translation Dragana Jelenic.
Tres Cantos (Madrid): Akal, DL 2000.
175 p.: ill; 22cm
