Milorad Pavić. Last love in Constantinople (№ 154686)

Each person is not one past, but two, ' replied the Magician, one called "Slow", it's the past grows with man from his birth and leads to death. The second past is called "Progress" and it returns a person to his birth. They have different duration. Depending on which one is longer, the person falls ill or becomes ill from his own death. The second means that the person builds his past and on the other side of the grave, and it continues to grow after his death. The truth is somewhere in between the first and second last...