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Between the future and the past we find the present. Tokarczuk is the author of the present, the author of now. Press your fingers to her pages; press your face right up to the ink. You will feel the heartbeat of her prose, the steady suspiration of our times. Marek Makowski is a writer living in Chicago. He teaches writing (currently remotely ...
Jul 29, 2019 · The book, “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,” comes out here in August from Riverhead, in a translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, the translator of two previous novels by Tokarczuk.
- Ruth Franklin
What’s your opinion on Olga Tokarczuk’s books? I have read “Drive your plow over the bones of the dead” and enjoyed it very much. Her style could be called “mystic”, the nature is the central topic but a new, unusual and unpredictable way. Started reading “Primeval and other times” but it’s very heavy to read. There are some ...
Oct 10, 2019 · She has gone boldly wherever her curiosity led, never daunted by boundaries, be they constraints of genre—as in the case of Flights (first published in Poland in 2007), a “constellation novel,” to use Olga’s own term, that might not be a novel at all—or political and linguistic—as in the case of The Books of Jacob (2014), Olga’s twelfth and latest novel, which I am translating ...
Oct 27, 2019 · Tokarczuk has won the 2018 medal, which was postponed after the jury was engulfed in scandal. The year is significant since, although she has been a star in her own country for the best part of three decades, and has had two previous novels translated into English, it was in 2018 that she made her international breakthrough by winning the Man ...
Jan 31, 2022 · The Nobel laureate on her new novel. Olga Tokarczuk approaches fiction in a way uniquely suited to the fragmentation of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, collapsing boundaries among time periods and countries. Born in 1962 in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk writes what she calls “constellation novels,” blending memoir ...
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Aug 28, 2018 · Tokarczuk herself has referred to her writing as “constellation novels”—constellations, another attempt by humanity to impute meaning to the randomness of the natural world—and says her intention with this text was to gather together disparate stories without providing them a larger architecture, allowing readers to make their own decisions about significance.
