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Sep 24, 2018 · 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...
Sep 24, 2024 · Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Book International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children’s book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.
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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.
Tokarczuk writes what she calls “constellation novels”: works that transcend style, narrative, perspective, place, and time, with no obvious relationship amongst the parts beyond broader themes.
Tokarczuk detects the worlds that speak by reshaping them in her volcanic fantasy and poetic language. With that textural femininity of her characters, both sweet and raw, of bodies with a pungent and still soft taste, that recall the fulminating descriptions of women by a poet of the remoteness and radiance of being like Saint-John Perse.
This article considers the issue of the identity crisis in the context of globalization, represented in the novel Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, a Nobel Prize laureate and one of the best-selling Polish writers of our time.
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Jul 29, 2019 · In the face of the Polish government’s rightist dogma, the country’s preëminent writer explores its history of ethnic intermingling. By Ruth Franklin. July 29, 2019. Olga Tokarczuk is ...
