True... but you chose two brilliant books.
I loved Pavic's novel. It's so very Borgesian, gothic, phantasmagoric. Definitely a predecessor of Mark Danielewski's disturbing
House of Leaves. I have the Male version of
Dictionary of the Khazars. Apparently there is a single different paragraph a couple hundred pages into the book in the female version. Regardless, I found it quite stunning. The melding together of myth, folklore, history, oral storytelling, and so on is fantastic.
Oh, by the way. Do you like Guillermo del Toro? His early stuff like Devil's Backbone, Cronos, and Pan's Labyrinth? If you do, you should definitely see his new film,
The Shape of Water. It's fantastic.