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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.
- Marek Makowski
Olga Tokarczuk’s Radical Tenderness. Reading the Nobel...
- Marek Makowski
Jul 29, 2019 · Tokarczuk’s first novel, published in 1993, was a philosophical parable set in seventeenth-century France; the next told the story of a psychic in Wrocław in the nineteen-twenties.
- Ruth Franklin
Jan 31, 2022 · When the Swedish Academy named Tokarczuk the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, her longtime translator Croft wrote, “Olga is the Nobel Laureate. She’s the one the prize was made for.”
One of the stories is about the man called Whatsisname, the man who finds the body of the hanged man Marek Marek, his neighbor, but he is incredulous, denies what he has seen, so that he cannot have a memory, and instead he is presented with a spirit, an apparition that haunts him in his own home.
Marek Makowski, The Los Angeles Review of Books. ‘Tokarczuk maintains her novel’s pace with section breaks, narrating her characters’ psychological development with the tension of discovery, the slow but progressive movement of their thoughts […]
Feb 1, 2022 · Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk returns with a fictionalized account of the life of Jacob Frank, an 18th-century Jewish mystic who casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following of his religion that blended Judaism, Islam and Catholicism.
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