This article discusses how Olga Tokarczuk, the Polish writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, has become a target of right-wing populist discourse, locating her at the centre of the ...landscape of hate. The features of the affective landscape of hate are discussed from the phenomenological and constructivist perspective. The author argues that the landscape of hate constitutes an important part of right-wing populism based on the narrative of national emergency and the language of war and exclusion (othering).
The paper sheds light on the psychology of the protagonist of the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, ...as a high-functioning autistic. The prism of autism explains the intricacies of this extraordinary character, providing a coherent framework for understanding her and the characteristics of the narrative itself, as it is narrated by the protagonist. At the same time, the novel provides us with an extraordinary inner portrait of an autistic psyche that may enrich our understanding of the autistic consciousness.
Praca ta stanowi propozycję lektury fragmentu książki Olgi Tokarczuk w perspektywie doświadczenia melancholicznego i ma celu ukazanie rysu melancholicznego wybranego bohatera Biegunów. Autorka, ...posługując się narzędziami interpretacyjnymi z zakresu literaturoznawstwa, tworzy swoiste case study: analizuje tekst literacki i wskazuje na tropy melancholijne, które pojawiają się w całej twórczości autorki Ksiąg Jakubowych. Postać flandryjskiego naukowca Filipa Verheyena badana jest w aspekcie natury ludzkiej oraz ciała, które „odpowiada” na cierpienie psychiczne.
The Nobel Prize lecture is a message from someone whose voice matters. The lecture by the Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 laureate in literature, is both a message consistent with the ...author's writings and a literary text in and of itself. However, for this message to reach a wider audience, it must be rendered from the original Polish into English in a way that recognizes the intratextual and intertextual semantic patterns being activated. These nuanced networks of meanings are traced here in two selected motifs: that of tęsknić (verb)/tęsknota (noun) ('miss/missing' or 'long/longing for') and that of jestem '(here) I am'. In this way, Tokarczuk's message is analysed in terms of words as micro-narratives and language as grand narrative. The micro-narratives of the Polish tęsknić/tęsknota and jestem converge into a coherent portrayal of existence, and an attempt is made to obtain a comparable degree of coherence in the English translation of the lecture. Both the original speech and its English rendering can be viewed as coming from the 'tender narrator', a unique category proposed by Tokarczuk. I claim that only through a careful recognition of these semantic patterns can the translation amplify the voice of the Nobel laureate.
"Za twórczość literacką jako sztukę wypowiadania całości ludzkiego doświadczenia, odkrywczo odsłaniającą prawdę o człowieku, pozwalającą odnaleźć porządek isens, za aktywność pozaliteracką : ...kulturalną, społeczną, obywatelską, ekologiczną, szerzącą idee równości, wolności i demokracji w kraju i na świecie, jak również poczucie odpowiedzialności za środowisko naturalne, a także za całokształt działalności dydaktycznej" Olga Tokarczuk uhonorowana została tytułem doktora "honoris causa" Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Uroczystość wręczenia autorce Biegunów pamiątkowego dyplomu odbędzie się 7 października 2021 w auli Collegium Novum podczas wyjątkowego posiedzenia Senatu UJ.
In the last twenty years, the publication of original novels broadly categorized as "ecofiction" signals the emergence of a new sensibility in many cultures. The fil rouge running through these ...catastrophic scenarios seems to be the annihilation of men persecuted by unexpected predators: women and nature. This paper aims to investigate the trend reflected by these rebellious heroines allied with natural elements that occur systematically in numerous works of the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk. Considering as examples some of the Polish author's novels, like Primeval and Other Times (1996), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), and stories such as The Ugliest Woman in the World (2001) and Transfugium (2018), this article seeks to analyze these transgressive female characters through the theoretical approaches of ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and Monster Studies and highlight their challenge to the anthropocentric and androcentric viewpoints, aimed at liberating all minorities from oppression.
Karasinski discussesthematic parallels in O. V. Vijayan's The Legends of Khasak and Olga Tokarczuk's Primeval and Other Times and interpret forms of spiritual oppression presented in these novels. He ...intends to illustrate how the authors make use of the folklore of their respective cultures--Indian and Polish--to construct magical realities. Both authors narrate the histories of locales that have been ravaged by conflicts, spiritually contaminated, and sealed off from the real world. He examines the narration, symbols, making and unmaking of the places the authors, on more than one occasion, call "god's playground." In fact, the writers evoke the textures of Khasak and Primeval, with all their secrets and ambivalences.
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In this reading of Olga Tokarczuk's novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, the theme of revenge is explored, as it relates to the protagonist's ecofeminist revolt against what she ...considers to be a male-dominated society, which disregards human and animal life in its pursuit of power and profit. The novel is investigated through an analysis of plot structure and character analysis, and reveals how Janina Duszejko, an irate elderly lady - a former bridge engineer, now English teacher, Blake translator and hobby astrologer - constantly appears in the thick of things. By the twists and turns of events, be they caused by human will, animal agency or by planetary constellations, Tokarczuk lets mythical figurations appear, such as the Fury and the Wolf, whereby the destructive powers of nature are unleashed. By interpreting the subtle hints planted throughout the narrative, a final solution to the crime mystery is uncovered.
In her Nobel speech in 2019, Olga Tokarczuk presented the category of tenderness as a new way of narrating the contemporary world. This article is a proposal for the analysis and interpretation of ...tenderness in ethical and aesthetic terms. (1) From an ethical perspective, tenderness is interpreted as an extension and complement of feminist relational ethics, i.e., the ethics of care. In the proposed approach, tenderness is a broader and more universal quality than care in the feminist understanding. This article opens with a brief discussion of feminist interventions in ethics, with particular emphasis on the ethics of care. Next, the differences between care and tenderness are enumerated and described, in order to show how tenderness can serve as an extension and complement of the feminist ethic of care. These considerations are guided by the question of why tenderness is a better—more appropriate and more responsive to contemporary challenges—moral guidepost than care. (2) From the aesthetic perspective, tenderness is the negation of a contemplative, distanced, impersonal, and rational view of reality. As an aesthetic imperative, tenderness implies engaged experience of the beauty of reality in all of its manifestations. Therefore, in the last part of the article, existential tender attunement is described in aesthetic terms, as a position serving to sensitize others to the beauty and complexity of the post-anthropocentric world.
The author attempts to reconstruct the spiritual structure that emerges from the literary work of Olga Tokarczuk. In his opinion, the direct context of this structure is a sense of a crisis or even ...the twilight of contemporary Western culture. For this reason, Tokarczuk seeks a paradoxical synthesis of antinomies which are tearing the modern world apart and which grow out of radically different intellectual, religious and civilisational traditions. Above all, she aims to combine the rational and empirical tradition of the European Enlightenment with prophetic and messianic currents, as well as elements of folk magic. For Tokarczuk, what has become a model of such a fusion is eighteenthcentury Podolia, a region in the eastern borderlands of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, where numerous forms of Jewish and Christian mysticism and messianism were born in stormy historical circumstances.
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