[DextExexy]

It's hard to say in just a few lines how marvelous and excellent is this novel. I would dare to say this is a book Borges would've loved. ?Why?

Because it is amazing how the author portrays reading as an activity capable of become a universe on itself. I'll try to explain this.

Several stories go around from a very peculiar book called "My Legacy" from an author called Anastas S. Branica. This book has no characters or plot it's just a sort of very detailed and beautifully written descriptions . This makes the book a whole unvierse, a world where only his readers can inhabit and become the real main characters.

The story goes around a lot of readers, going from the author and why he wrote that book, and old woman who helped creating it and who was secretely in love with the author, a communist who did everything in his life just to conquer the love of the old woman, and a young student who is assigned the duty of restoring the descriptions from the book, and who is in love with the assistant of the old woman.

The statement of this work and his magic is that a lot of persons that read the same book can live on it, and that's the way many characters interact in the novel.

A beautiful love story, a sculpted perfect piece of total literature.

P.S. The author is Serbian but I wasn't able to find Serbian flag so I put Montenegro's one.

[Gaxiciverfere]

I'm no great expert on this (so don't quote me), but I think the guy's Serbian; at least that is what the Russian edition of his novel The Sky-Locked Atlas claims (on the back cover).

If you liked this, you will also probably enjoy the books of Milorad Pavić, presented in various "forms": as dictionaries, crossword puzzles, tarot-decks, and zodiac primers. His latest novel, I hear, has exactly one hundred different endings (choose one!).

Petrović, of course, is an excellent writer in his own right. The Sky-Locked Atlas is very playful and poetic (I've read it in the Russian translation, but the two languages are related, so I don't think it lost much of its essence by being transcribed in that language).

The Siege of the Saint Salvation Church (or so they translate it into English on Wikipedia) is a 400+ page historical novel and is therefore less experimental than the other books. Many consider this to be his masterpiece, but it's a rough gem, I have to say...

Thank you for mentioning THoGF though--I have never heard of it and will look for it at the library the next time I'm there.

[DextExexy]

Thans for your reply Liam, I'll try to get The Sky-Locked Atlas ASAP because I'm very impressed with Petrovic's work.

You're right, the guy is Serbian, actually I put in the P.S. on my post, I wasn't able to find the appropiate flag, but I see that you found it so I guess I suck a it hehe. I was trying to change it but I don't see how.

Can someone else can tell me how to correct this please?