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   Olga Tokarczuk’s unique novel interweaves reflections on travel with an exploration of human anatomy - examining life and death, motion and migration. Translated by Jennifer Croft. In the 17th century, the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen dissects and draws pictures of his own amputated leg.

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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...

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   Flights (Polish: Bieguni, lit. 'runners') is a 2007 fragmentary novel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The book was translated into English by Jennifer Croft. [1] The original Polish title refers to runaways (runners, bieguni), a sect of Old Believers, who believe that being in constant motion is a trick to avoid evil.

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   Feb 2, 2020 · Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, translated masterfully by Jennifer Croft, weaves together memories, observations, and stories to explore what it means to live and travel in the modern world.

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   May 26, 2018 · It’s these notions, Flights speculates, that we crave – while at the same time letting them ensnare us. Flights is a book of glances into lives in transit. There is an intoxicating tumult of narrative voices.

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   Sep 1, 2007 · From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister.

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   Who wrote 'flights' by Olga Tokarczuk?

   • From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister.

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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.

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   What is Olga Tokarczuk about?

   • Olga Tokarczuk’s unique novel interweaves reflections on travel with an exploration of human anatomy - examining life and death, motion and migration. Translated by Jennifer Croft. In the 17th century, the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen dissects and draws pictures of his own amputated leg.

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   Who is Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk?

   • Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer and activist, and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish.

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   What does Tokarczuk say about Wikipedia?

   • Emperor Joseph II, Tokarczuk announces with apparent approval, collected “every manifestation of the aberration of the world” in his “cabinet of curiosities.” One of the book’s most suggestive micro-essays concerns Wikipedia, which Tokarczuk rightly lauds as a “wonder of the world,” a project to gather the entire globe’s knowledge.

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   Why is Tokarczuk a great redescriber?

   • Because Tokarczuk is such a talented redescriber of the world, the book is at its best not in the ozone of abstraction but when it registers, as it so often does, particularities closer to the earth. Her discerning eye shakes things up, in the same way that her book scrambles conventional forms.

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   From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister.