Bieguni
Autor:
Olga Tokarczuk
Co mamy wspólnego z biegunami - prawosławnym odłamem starowierców, ludźmi, którzy zło oswajają ruchem? Ile jest w nas z biegunów? Od dawnych sułtańskich pałaców przez siedemnastowieczne gabinety osobliwości po współczesne hale odlotów - Olga Tokarczuk zabiera czytelników w niezwykłą podróż przez różne miejsca i czasy. Zaprasza do wspólnego oswajania migotliwej, fragmentarycznej rzeczywistości, do porzucania utartych szlaków. Ta powieść nie ma granic - dzieje się na całym świecie.
Ludzie nie bójcie się
Wywiad:
Olga Tokarczuk, Dorota Wodecka
Tropem herezji: miliardy żyjących przed nami ludzi nigdy nie zostało "zapisanych"
Wywiad:
Olga Tokarczuk, Tomasz Stawiszyński
The Books of Jacob or a fantastic journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, not counting the minor sects
Podtytuł:
told by the dead, supplemented by the author, drawing from a range of books, and aided by imagination, the which being the greatest natural gift of any person. That the wise might have it for a record, that my compatriots reflect, laypersons gain some understanding, and melancholy souls obtain some slight enjoyment
Autor:
Olga Tokarczuk
Książka w języku angielskim. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumours of his sect?s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. In The Books of Jacob, her masterpiece, 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk writes the story of Frank through the perspectives of his contemporaries, capturing Enlightenment Europe on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.
Primeval and other times
Autor:
Olga Tokarczuk
Set in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated by eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, the novel chronicles the lives of the inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century in prose that is forceful, direct, and the stylistic cousin of the magic realism in Gabriel García Márquez`s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Told in short bursts of "Time," the narrative takes the form of a stylized fable, an epic allegory about the inexorable grind of time and the clash between modernity (the masculine) and nature (the feminine) in which Poland`s tortured political history from 1914 to the contemporary era and the episodic brutality visited on ordinary village life is played out. A novel of universal dimension that does not dwell on the parochial, Primeval and Other Times was awarded the Koscielski Foundation Prize in 1997, which established Tokarczuk as one of the leading voices in Polish letters. It has been translated into many languages throughout the world and hailed as a contemporary European classic. - Tokarczuk has said of the novel: "I always wanted to write a book such as this. One that creates and describes a world. It is the story of a world that, like all things living, is born, develops, and then perishes." Kitchens, bedrooms, childhood memories, dreams and insomnia, reminiscences, and amnesia - these are part of the existential and acoustic spaces from which the voices of Tokarczuk`s tale come, her "boxes in boxes."
