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Sep 26, 2024 · Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction is built on filtering fragments of the past — people, stories, myths, orthodoxies — through a contemporary lens. In her latest novel, The Empusium, translated by ...
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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. Her new book, The Empusium, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, is […]
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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 earth.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Tokarczuk, however, remains little known in the anglophone world; at the time of the Nobel announcement, for example, only four of her books had appeared in English translation.2 This essay will examine Tokarczuk’s works, especially Flights and Księgi Jakubowe (the Englishlanguage version, The Books of Jacob, is scheduled for publication in March 2021), with special attention to Tokarczuk ...
