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

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   Oct 3, 2024 · 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 ...

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 · Tokarczuk’s book is a cabinet of curiosities that must also include itself in the cabinet, which means that, formally, “Flights” can’t really hang together, and doesn’t attempt to.

3. culture.pl › en › article10 Need-to-Know Books by Olga Tokarczuk | Article - Culture.pl

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   Jan 22, 2020 · Artists & Works Index. Multimedia. Published: Last updated: On 10 December 2019, Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Culture.pl’s Igor Belov presents his take on ten of Olga Tokarczuk’s most famous books.

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

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   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 ...

5. yalereview.org › article › olga-tokarczuks-radicalMarek Makowski: "Olga Tokarczuk's Radical… - The Yale Review

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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 ...

6. www.nytimes.com › 2022/01/24 › booksBook Review: ‘The Books of Jacob,’ by Olga Tokarczuk - The ...

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   Jan 24, 2022 · Jacob offers his grateful followers a sense that someone has a handle on what is going on. This novel’s density is saturnalian; its satire nimble; academics will tug at its themes, as if they ...

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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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   Why should we read Tokarczuk's books?

   • The Nobel lecture and each of Tokarczuk’s novels offer us a new way to understand literature and our world: they share an openness, an ability to connect and to revive grand narratives.

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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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   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.

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

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   Who is Olga Tokarczuk?

   • On 10 December 2019, Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Culture.pl’s Igor Belov presents his take on ten of Olga Tokarczuk’s most famous books.

   10 Need-to-Know Books by Olga Tokarczuk | Article - Culture.pl

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   Who is Tokarczuk?

   • 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) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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8. www.newstatesman.com › culture › booksOlga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob: an epic that sinks under ...

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   Dec 8, 2021 · The Books of Jacob, Tokarczuk’s ninth novel, which appeared in Polish in 2014 and has now been translated into English by Jennifer Croft, offers a more jaded view of the “peregrinations” of its huge cast of characters: here, an itinerant existence will not deliver you from pain and suffering. Jacob Frank, the real-life 18th-century Jewish mystic at the heart of the novel “feels best in ...