IMMANENT POETICS DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS

Abstract

Dictionary of the Khazars balances on the borders of genre. Literary innovations that Pavic presented his first novel, increased the horizon of expectations of the readership. These innovations, the bulk of pages, it is necessary to collect in order to get familiar with the writer’s poetics. The basic concept of Pavic’s novel-lexicon based on the notion of palimpsest. Specifically, the Dictionary of the Khazars are already familiar motifs from a writer’s story Flower fever, Dinner in Dubrovnik, The Game of Chess with living figures and others, which can be determined by applying the comparative method. In the philological analysis of the novel, the unusual syntactic structure and paradoxes, it is shown that Pavic tends to separate from the standard linguistic expression, thus creating their own idiom. Analysis of key segments of the novel using a comparative, structuralist, philological and tex method, leads to its immanent poetics.