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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). 15 Translation mine. The full title of the soon-to-be-published English version is not available at the time of this writing. 16 Translation mine.
- Stephen Rojcewicz
- 2020
Tokarczuk relishes her role as a challenger of orthodoxies, and in an interview after the book won the Nike Award she urged her fellow-citizens to acknowledge the darker elements of the nation’s ...
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.
Benedykt Chmielowski is fairly focussed on his encyclopedia – his story alone would make for an interesting novel – but does get caught up in the Jacob story. However, there are many, many others, some of whom I have mentioned only in passing and others not at all, who play a key role in the book as Jacob acquires and sheds supporters and confidants (and enemies) at a steady rate.
Jan 19, 2022 · First there was Nowe Ateny (New Athens), by Father Benedykt Chmielowski, in a wonderful edition produced by Maria and Jan Lipski, which I read in pieces throughout my childhood and youth. Years later, in the autumn of 1997, I was in a bookshop somewhere, and I dug out a strange publication consisting of two notebooks, in a large, unwieldy format with a shiny blue cover.
Summary: The power of the unconscious accepted as a wise window on life, and poetic intelligence; creative thought and psychoanalysis as an anthropological look at cultural worlds and our everyday life against the backdrop of the cosmos, the intimacy of the self and of an immemorial time run in all possible directions through Olga Tokarczuk’s ...
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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. Born in 1962 in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk writes what she calls “constellation novels,” blending memoir, fiction, and lyric sketches into a single narrative.
