Book Club BY THE WAY: Olga Tokarczuk Flights. Its strange but you will love it
Hello book lovers, wanderers and explorers This time we meet to discuss a fragmentary novel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczhuk Flights. The novel won the Man Booker International Prize in 2018, marking the first time a Polish author received the award. In 2019, Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The book: In this video, we are discussing some of the paths that we explored and Ariadne s threads that we followed in the labyrinth of Flights. A panopticon of time and space. Or as Olga puts it, a constellation of stories. Have you already read it What are your thoughts and impressions Time codes: 02:03 Who, what and why 05:44 Is a nonlinear narrative an easy read 14:35 How moral is immortality 19:05 Seeing is knowing 21:31 Picking top 2 stories from the book 29:19 Travelling in the book: Sevenleague boots 32:13 Linear and circular time 35:08 Is the style of the book that original 38:18 Chapeau to the translator
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