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Play as a Literary Device and Psychological Pattern in Milorad Pavic's The Last Love in Constantinople
Literary Studies·2026·Peer-Reviewed Article·Open Access
Abstract
A psychoanalytic and semiotic analysis of play as both literary device and behavioral pattern in Milorad Pavic's The Last Love in Constantinople, drawing on Huizinga, Caillois, and Jung to examine tarot symbolism, archetypal structure, and the reader's role in the novel's labyrinthine architecture.