The Review of Contemporary Fiction, September 22nd, 1993
Playfully inventive, Milorad Pavic's newest novel, his third, again a novel of the unique sort, one needing characteristic "directions" - it may be read from the front cover (Hero's story) or, if one flips the book, from the back (Leander's) - is not in fact a concept that is original. The narrative technique of using two equal parts for a duple book, bound back to back, was done before, and in my opinion more successfully, in 1973 by Earl Rovit in his novel Crossings, a tale of nineteenth-century adultery in Connecticut, where one part is a woman's secret diary, the other her minister husba...
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