Box for Stationery

Milorad Pavić — a Serbian prose writer, whom critics have dubbed the first writer of the 21st century.

The story of «The Box for Stationery» begins at the moment of conclusion. It is a riddle-novel, a labyrinth-novel, into which with each chapter you plunge deeper. Inside the box — in postcards, advertisements, recipes, manuscripts, torn pages from books, on film and photographs — a complex love story of two extraordinary personalities is captured.

In the box for stationery intertwines the fate of an unknown French woman, who can read scents and buys the most expensive fur coat in Paris for free twice, and a young man searching for a girl with the female version of «The Dictionary of the Khazars» and who has forgotten Serbian after seven lessons. Their relationship is measured in love hours, which measure the duration of the act of love. Sometimes one or several drops of time fall together, sometimes one drop of love time is larger, and the next is smaller…
This is a wordless tale about what love is.