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1. yalereview.org › article › olga-tokarczuk-interviewOlga Tokarczuk: Redefining the Novel - The Yale Review

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   Jan 31, 2022 · 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.

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2. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2018/10/01“Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down | The New Yorker

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   Sep 24, 2018 · “Flights,” by the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead), is exciting in the way that unclassifiable things are exciting—that is to say, at times confoundingly so. It is intermittently a work...

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4. lithub.com › on-returning-to-and-reinterpretingOn Returning to and Reinterpreting the Classics: Olga ...

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   Sep 24, 2024 · Olga Tokarczuk: I’m not a great believer in categorizing fiction by genre. Literary genres exist to help librarians and booksellers decide which shelf to place a book on, and they can also help some readers choose what to read.

5. journal-psychoanalysis.eu › articles › fromFrom Psychoanalysis to Literature: Olga Tokarczuk

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   Talking about “divination from the sky” (Tokarczuk, 1998, p.292), how you can read the clouds, and other signs that form on that screen in “diaphanous drawings”, a character from the novel, R., thinks that he can shoot frames of the sky for entire seasons using a tripod, starting in spring.

6. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › literatureTranscript from an interview with Olga Tokarczuk

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   Interview with Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? Olga Tokarczuk: It was really a very good beginning for a writer. The books were very present in our house.

7. www.theparisreview.org › interviews › 7968The Art of Fiction No. 258 - The Paris Review

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   The Anglophone world caught on to Tokarczuk belatedly, through the combined efforts of her translators and of her first English-language publishers, Granta Books, Northwestern University Press, and Twisted Spoon Press, as well as of her current British publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions.

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   How does Olga Tokarczuk approach fiction?

   • 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.

   Olga Tokarczuk: Redefining the Novel - The Yale Review

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   What is 'flights' by Olga Tokarczuk about?

   • Illustration by Agata Nowicka “Flights,” by the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead), is exciting in the way that unclassifiable things are exciting—that is to say, at times confoundingly so. It is intermittently a work of fiction, but it is also an exercise in theory, cultural anthropology, and memoir.

   “Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down | The New Yorker

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   Why did Olga Tokarczuk like school?

   • Olga Tokarczuk: I liked my school but rather from social reasons because of my friends and the time spending together. But I was a type of child who rather preferred self-education, so I had many hobbies, many fascinating subjects like astronomy for instance. So, I really spent a lot of time studying for my pleasure.

   Transcript from an interview with Olga Tokarczuk

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   How did Tokarczuk become famous?

   • The Anglophone world caught on to Tokarczuk belatedly, through the combined efforts of her translators and of her first English-language publishers, Granta Books, Northwestern University Press, and Twisted Spoon Press, as well as of her current British publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions.

   Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 258

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   What is Tokarczuk's story about?

   • Pulling from folktales, mythology, art, and literature, Tokarczuk’s novel spins a story that feels eerily familiar and yet totally new. The book challenges the supremacy of the “rational” that has held sway since the Enlightenment, painting a picture of a world that is illogical, fantastical, and often simply unexplainable.

   Olga Tokarczuk Takes the Supernatural Seriously - The Atlantic

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   Who is Olga Tokarczuk?

   • In her bookstore in Wałbrzych in the late eighties. Courtesy of Olga Tokarczuk. Olga Tokarczuk is young for a Nobel Prize winner. She received the award four years ago, at fifty-seven, for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

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9. www.theatlantic.com › books › archiveOlga Tokarczuk Takes the Supernatural Seriously - The Atlantic

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   Oct 3, 2024 · The book challenges the supremacy of the “rational” that has held sway since the Enlightenment, painting a picture of a world that is illogical, fantastical, and often simply unexplainable.