Tokarczuk also explores the connection between travel and colonialism with side trips into “exotic” practices and cabinets of curiosity. A first-person narrator offers a sort of memoir through movement, recalling her own peregrinations bit by bit. One of the extended stories follows a man named Kunicki whose wife and child disappear on vacation-and suddenly reappear. Movement from one place to another, from one thought to another, defines both the preoccupations of this discursive text and its style. Overall, though, this is a series of fragments tenuously linked by the idea of travel-through space and also through time-and a thoughtful, ironic voice. It’s not even a collection of intertwined short stories, although there are longer sections featuring recurring characters and well-developed narratives.
Her wide-ranging interests are evident in this volume.
In addition to being a fiction writer, Tokarczuk is also an essayist and a psychologist and an activist known-and sometimes reviled-for her cosmopolitan, anti-nationalist views. Thoughts on travel as an existential adventure from one of Poland’s most lauded and popular authors.Īlready a huge commercial and critical success in her native country, Tokarczuk ( House of Day, House of Night, 2003) captured the attention of Anglophone readers when this book was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2018.
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