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1. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2018/10/01“Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down | The New Yorker

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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...

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

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   Tokarczuk constructs Flights as a compendium in order to represent how we experience the world today—in pieces, without set chronologies—and to allow the reader to see different shapes in the form.

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

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   Jan 31, 2022 · Though the novel ends in the Enlightenment, Tokarczuk’s portrayals of both Christian anti-Semitism and the Frankists’ internal power dynamics raise deep questions about Polish history, feminism, and the nature of religious faith that remain relevant today.

4. www.ft.com › content › 9860c14b-366f-4168-a7d1-e26c5The Empusium — Olga Tokarczuk’s carnivalesque homage to ...

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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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6. lithub.com › on-returning-to-and-reinterpretingOn Returning to and Reinterpreting the Classics: Olga ...

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   Sep 24, 2024 · Olga Tokarczuk: I’m not a great believer in categorizing fiction by genre. Literary genres exist to help librarians and booksellers decide which shelf to place a book on, and they can also help some readers choose what to read.

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

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   Oct 3, 2024 · The Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s latest novel, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, is also a bildungsroman, following the education of a young man.

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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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   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 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.

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

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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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   Who is Olga Tokarczuk?

   • The Yale Review | Marek Makowski: "Olga Tokarczuk's Radical… I n October 2019, when the Swedish Academy’s press secretary announced Olga Tokarczuk as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, I was lying in bed with my eyes closed, holding a phone that was livestreaming the ceremony.

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   Why does Tokarczuk write flights?

   • Tokarczuk constructs Flights as a compendium in order to represent how we experience the world today—in pieces, without set chronologies—and to allow the reader to see different shapes in the form.

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9. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › literatureTranscript from an interview with Olga Tokarczuk

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   Interview with Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? Olga Tokarczuk: It was really a very good beginning for a writer. The books were very present in our house.