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Tokarczuk underlines the influence of Chmielowski by making him a major character in the novel and reproducing his title page in Book I, Section 4 (Księgi, 845; Livres de Jakób 963). By alluding to Chmielowski’s encyclopedia, Tokarczuk suggests that she, too, will provide an encyclopedic treatment.
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.
Tokarczuk constructs Flights as a compendium in order to represent how we experience the world today—in pieces, without set chronologies—and to allow the reader to see different shapes in the form.
Jul 29, 2019 · More than nine hundred pages long, the novel interweaves the perspectives of dozens of people connected to Frank, including Benedykt Chmielowski, a priest who wrote the first Polish-language ...
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Olga Tokarczuk: Księgi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob) This monumental work – nearly a thousand pages long – tells the stories of Jacob Frank and Benedykt Chmielowski, two eighteenth century Polish religious leaders, the first, of course, Jewish, and the second Catholic, as well as many other historical characters of that period.
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.
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Tokarczuk also breaks down the barrier between human, plant and animal worlds. Animals and even plants communicate with humans who want to listen. Between these worlds the living beings belong to the same vital sphere, they share the same substance.
