Moonstone

Milorad Pavic — a famous Serbian miracle worker of words, who overturned the notions of what artistic prose can be. His "Dictionary of the Khazars" turned out to be not only one of the most important books of magical realism, standing on par with Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," but also a work that was ahead of its time. However, few know that Milorad Pavic was not only a novelist: he translated poems, gifting the Serbs a new translation of "Eugene Onegin," and began his literary journey as a poet. For the first time in Russian, we present a collection of selected poems by the great writer: as whimsical, mysterious, and metaphorical as Pavic's prose. Weaving together the centuries-old history of the Serbian people with details of modernity, these poems — the starting points of all Pavic's work, crystals in the facets of which the enigmatic plots of the Serbian master are reflected.