Jakub’s Books by Olga Tokarczuk talk about Józef Frank (1726–1791), the creator of “probably the most significant phenomenon of public life in which the Jewish communities participated in the ...beginnings of the modern era”. The writer, thanks to his hero, considered the successor of the leaders of the largest messianic movement, Sabbatai Zvi and Baruchja Ruso, guides the reader through the multicultural and multiethnic Polish Republic in the turbulent 18th century.
L’article part du constat que de nombreux récits récemment publiés dans les pays post-communistes en Europe de l’Est esquissent des espaces naturels laissant progressivement apparaître les traces de ...l’histoire violente du XXe siècle. Il s’intéresse à deux exemples, allemand et polonais, dans lesquels les liens entre biologie et histoire sont particulièrement accentués. Les protagonistes de L’Inconstance de l’espèce de Judith Schalansky (2011) et de Sur les Ossements des morts d’Olga Tokarczuk (2009) défendent un monde régi uniquement par des lois biologiques — darwiniennes ou plus ésotériques. Mais cette vision stricte est mise à mal par la façon d’agir inhumaine des protagonistes ainsi que par des informations sur leur passé sous le communisme. Des récits apparemment anodins s’avèrent ainsi être nourris par l’histoire et éminemment politiques.
This article discusses the rise of an environmental awareness of place in post-socialist cultures as a reaction to decades-long authoritarian practices that had shaped and informed human beings' ...relation with natural space. Drawing on examples of fiction and non-fiction from Poland and Ukraine (Andrzej Stasiuk, Iurii Andrukhovych, Olga Tokarczuk, and Halyna Pohutiak), this article focuses on the ecocritical and environmentally transformative potential of several representative geographically conscious narratives. To examine such emergent readings of place, the article discusses the development of the narrative paradigms of (bio)regionalism and localism, which, on the one hand, represent alternative ways of conceptualizing the natural environment and, on the other, serve as reactions to earlier socialist constructions of centralist geographies and homogeneous national spaces.
In the paper dedicated to prof. Jerzy Jarzębski I deal with the transformations in experimental narrative in contemporary prose, especially with ways of using pronouns and gender forms. I concentrate ...on the interpretation of novels written by Zbigniew Kruszyński, Olga Tokarczuk and Jacek Dukaj, whose shared main feature are the relocations of grammatical forms of the text. Mixed narrative forms (pronouns “we” and “you”, reflexives, transformations of the neuter gender, etc.) open new possibilities of worldview and self-identity.
Zoper »naravni« red sveta Strajn, Jelka Kernev
Primerjalna književnost,
08/2016, Letnik:
39, Številka:
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Journal Article
From the perspective of the late philosophy of Gilles Deleuz and Félix Guattari, and especially from the perspective of their notions: sign, representation, becoming, animal, encounter, coincidence, ...and many others, this article focuses on the modern Polish novel Prowadz swój plug przez kosci umarlych (Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead). It examines the thematization of non-anthropocentric orientation, clearly visible in the novel, and the fact that William Blake's compositive art is the main intertextual element of the novel. In this regard, it explores the surprising common points and literary thematization of the intersections between Blake's world and artistic views and the philosophical thinking of Deleuze and Guattari.
This article analyzes the magical realist mode of writing in two novels by Polish author Olga Tokarczuk: Primeval and Other Times (1996) and House of Day, House of Night (1998). While Tokarczuk ...herself rejects the label “magical realism,” her novels exhibit such key magical realist characteristics as disruption of rationally ordered time and space, the rejection of dominant historical and cultural narratives, an exploration of alternate epistemological forms of inquiry, and literalization of language, metaphor, and imagination. In Primeval, Tokarczuk presents a world that exists at the intersection between cyclical (mythical) and linear times; in House the novel asserts historical order through the dominance of space over time. In both novels, Tokarczuk’s poetics of the Word (Logos) becomes key to establishing a sense of magical realism in the texts. By using these and other magical realist narrative techniques, Tokarczuk deftly questions dominant discourses of Polish history and culture, such as that of the “Recovered Territories” or the power of religious faith. The presence of the magical realist mode in Tokarczuk’s work has important implications for the study of magical realism in general and Polish literary studies in particular.
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