Olga Tokarczuk: Flights

Olga Tokarczuk joins translator Jennifer Croft and moderator Shuchi Saraswat as part of the Transnational Literature Series.
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? We call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller’s answer.
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[@bjwnashe5589]

Brilliant writer. Flights is a great book. One of the best books I have read in the past 20-30 years.

[@hdagelic]

Just for Olga Tokarczuk here is Anna Lena Löfgren, a Swedish singer I most love&respect, singing two Ave-Marias: * Bach/Gounod: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2Sxh4uXjayAqrs * Schubert: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKi3l5iMZbdobZI Some of the pictures in these videos are from Zagreb, Croatia, a country that Karol Wojtyla really loved and visited many times. You can also find a translation of the beautiful text of the first Ave Maria in this album (@35:30), starting and buildning upon a melody from the famous film "The King and the Mockingbird". The mellody is composed by the polish composer Wojciech Kilar: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXKYm3yAiZ53Y7s PS I wonder will anybody guess a meaning to this album! It has one and is expressed by changing the music modus/scale. PS2) IT (clown) = swITchSEXXX (X=6, Aurora ~ Running with the wolves, Feminism: Aurora ~ Apple Tree, Also listen: Aurora ~ Is there life on mars ~~~3:50~~~)

[@martinschauss]

does this have a part two?

[@TemporaryRelased]

TV pilot

[@emakowiecka8254]

To ca na głowie to w głowie- brak wiedzy, mądrości ale wielka radość z zadawania ran rdzennym Polakom. Ten list znalazłam i polecam: ttp://www.polska-jutra.eu/trzeba-nam-prawdy-nie-politycznych-nobli/

[@marciecorda5209]

Is this another NEW AGE MOVEMENT sect writer?

[@marciecorda5209]

@Trinity M Modernists and brainwashed intelectuals are not in the scope of my interest, neither RUDES.

[@dm3199]

Back in Poland she's very controversial person, she makes very uneducated statements regarding polish history, For example she says that Polish people are murderers of Jews, Jewish historians on the other hand for centuries were calling Poland safe Refuge or paradisus Judeorum, she also says that polish ethnic majority were slave owners, but documents that established Union between Poland and Lithuania clearly demand that Lithuania in order to join the union must abolish slavery. Poland also played a key role in ending slave trade in 10th century that was ran by Jewish community. She also calls Polish people colonizers even though Poland never had any colonies and actually we were colonized and lost our independence to Russia Austria and Germany. She makes other bizarre and controversial statements regarding her own country and people that there is a doubt if she is really polish.

[@agatamagorzata6019]

She is director Agnieszka Holland's clone.

[@dm3199]

@@agatamagorzata6019 looks like all Polish leftist radicals is an army of clones.

[@meinungabundance7696]

This is absolutely NOT true, and this is you who shows lack of education.

[@dm3199]

@@meinungabundance7696 what is not true? can you be more precise.

[@LiJakLidia_UK]

Well said! Thank you.

[@adam_zs8292]

Granting the Nobel to her is a disgrace.She's anti polish,spits at Poland at every turn and claims that Poland is not a democratic state at present.That's ridiculous!!!.Well,the Nobel Prize has been devaluating over the last couple of years and getting worthless in my opinion.

[@kristofferlind753]

she's a brilliant writer, end of conversation.

[@adam_zs8292]

@Trinity MHer being a neo-Marxist and raging feminist obesssed with a right to pefrform abortion in every situation does put me off her.Apart from politics she does spit at Poland regularly whether you like it or not,which is obvious as her roots are not Polish.

[@bexparkman7701]

Not so keen on the English language statement. Its insulting. Foreign people have an obsession with the fact some English speak only English. There's plenty of English speakers that speak so much slang and a range of accents they are not understood by everyone. Unless everyone spoke queens English which is the only case for foreigners and well-spoken brits. I Would like to be asking questions there in the strongest Gypsy Irish slang

[@emakowiecka8254]

To ca na głowie to w głowie- brak wiedzy, mądrości ale wielka radość z zadawania ran rdzennym Polakom. Ten list znalazłam i polecam: ttp://www.polska-jutra.eu/trzeba-nam-prawdy-nie-politycznych-nobli/