Olga Tokarczuk

Puolalaisen Olga Tokarczukin novellikokoelman 19 monitasoista kertomusta johdattavat lukijan Sleesian syrjäseuduilta Varsovan keskustaan ja Kreikan autiolta kalliosaarelta skotlantilaiseen kartanoon. Olipa kyse ydinlaskeumasta, sirkuskiertueesta tai murhamysteeristä, Nobel-palkittu Tokarczuk välittää lukijalle tarkkanäköisesti ja lämminhenkisesti ihmisten onnen ja onnettomuuden, jotka niin usein ovat yksi ja sama asia.Kolmeen osioon jaetun teoksen ensimmäisen osan kertomuksissa käsitellään luovuuden olemusta. Toisessa osassa todelliset historialliset tarinat ja myytit heräävät henkiin, ja viimeisen osan kertomuksia määrittävät syvän moraaliset ja psykologiset kysymykset. Kokoelman päättävässä hengästyttävässä niminovellissa minuuden ja toiseuden, yksilön ja yhteisön väliset rajat sumenevat.”Maailma muodostuu tyhjyydestä, eikä ikävä kyllä ole olemassa sanoja, joilla tuota tyhjyyttä voisi ilmaista.”Olga Tokarczuk (s. 1962) on yksi merkittävimmistä eurooppalaisista nykykirjailijoista. Vuonna 2018 kirjallisuuden Nobel-palkinnon voittanut Tokarczuk on koulutukseltaan psykologi. Rumpujen kaupunki (Gra na wielu bebenkach, 2001) on hänen ensimmäinen suomennettu novellikokoelmansa.Tapani Kärkkäinen (s. 1962) tunnetaan Puolan kulttuurin ja kirjallisuuden asiantuntijana ja esiintuojana sekä puolalaisen kirjallisuuden suomentajana.

The Nobel Prize winner at her earthiest and most ethereal, in a fictional journey through three generations in the life of a mythical Polish village For the denizens of Primeval, the world beyond its fields and forests is but a dream. The outcast Cornspike raises her daughter among the creatures and spirits of the forest. The squire Popielski loses his faith and becomes obsessed with a game where progress is attained only by dreaming the right kind of dream. Nonhuman beings--trees and mushrooms and archangels--have their Times too, as do inanimate objects, which may be "more important for the world than people." Yet their stories--or Times--are buffeted by the feral history of the twentieth century, after war carries Michal the miller away from his family in 1914. Bloodshed, betrayal, and the dramas of daily life mark the birth, life, and decline of Primeval's little world and Times, making us consider afresh the stories by which we comprehend our own. Rich with the capaciousness and imagination that have brought Tokarczuk to sustained international fame, Primeval and Other Times is yet another treasure for fans and new converts alike.

For the denizens of mythical Primeval, its fields and forests bounded by two rivers, the world beyond is nothing more than a dream. Yet their stories – or Times – are a microcosm of the tumultuous recent history of the world. The fortunes of the family of Michal the miller, whom conscription carries away in 1914, punctuate nearly a century of war and occupation. The outcast Cornspike raises her daughter among the creatures and spirits of the forest. The squire Popielski loses his faith and becomes obsessed with a game where progress is attained only by dreaming the right kind of dream. Non-human beings – trees and mushrooms and archangels – have their Times too, as do inanimate objects, which may be ‘more important for the world than people’. Alongside bloodshed and betrayal, the dramas of Primeval’s daily life mark the birth, life, and decline of its little world and Time, making us consider afresh the stories that help us comprehend and navigate our own. Rich with the capaciousness and innovation that have brought Olga Tokarczuk to sustained international fame, Primeval and Other Times is yet another treasure for confirmed fans and new converts alike.

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There's the man whose death - with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech--was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology. Another brilliant "constellation novel" in the mode of Tokarczuk's International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.

Hämta bokcirkelfrågor till Styr din plog över de dödas ben här » NOBELPRISET I LITTERATUR 2018 Det är vinternatt och snön faller tät. Janina Duszejkos hus är ett av få bebodda i den lilla byn på den polska landsbygden. Tidigare arbetade Janina som lärare, numera ägnar hon dagarna åt att översätta William Blake, studera astrologi och se om välbärgade Warszawabors sommarställen. Hon betraktas som en ensling, som föredrar rådjurens och vildsvinens sällskap framför människornas. Den här natten inträffar den första av en rad allt märkligare händelser i Janinas avlägsna hörn av världen. Grannen Storfot hittas död. Snart följer fler offer. Den lokala polisen famlar, och Janina inser att hon måste ta utredningen i egna händer. Bara hon verkar kunna tyda spåren. "Styr din plog över de dödas ben" är en mörk sagoliknande thriller som utforskar människans förhållande till naturen, och utmanar föreställningar om rättsskipning, ödestro, förnuft och vansinne.

‘I told Marta that each of us has two homes – one actual home with a fixed location in time and space, and a second that is infinite, with no address and no chance of being immortalized in architectural plans – and that we live in both of them simultaneously.’ A young woman settles in Nowa Ruda, a village in Lower Silesia, a few dozen metres from the Czech border. The communist regime has just collapsed, but that is not the only noticeable change: the -surrounding houses, gardens and forests are full of vestiges of the time when the region belonged to another country. Together with her enigmatic neighbour Marta, the narrator accumulates the stories of the hamlet, from the history of its foundation to the lives of its saints, from anecdotes about its wonderfully unique inhabitants to recipes and gossip. Published in English in its original form for the first time, in a new translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, House of Day, House of Night is a brilliantly imaginative epic novel of a small place by Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk, one of the most daring and ambitious novelists at work today.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone ... elegant and genuinely unsettling." -The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G rbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.

A gorgeously illustrated picture book for adults--with two gatefold pages inside--by Nobelist Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, creators of The Lost Soul A devastating putdown of our self-obsessed, superficial social media culture. Mr. Distinctive has a memorable, attractive face. He only has to walk down the street, and everyone turns to smile at him. Once he starred in a TV commercial and was praised and congratulated for having a face that sold the product well. Mr. Distinctive is very pleased with himself and loves to take selfies with his cellphone. He posts countless images of himself that are shared all over the internet. One day Mr. Distinctive looks in the mirror and sees that his features have begun to fade, his face has changed into a blur. With every new photo he posts, his distinctiveness dwindles. Determined to regain his flawlessly beautiful face and the adoration it brought him, Mr. Distinctive seeks out an extreme solution. But are the lengths he goes in order to restore his sense of being unique and exceptional worth it? In their new story, the creators of The Lost Soul--Nobel prize in literature winner Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo--show us a world of obsession with personal appearance and self-promotion, where happiness is an imperative, and the cult of youth rules.

In September 1913, a young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone – or something – seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.

Nobelistin ylimaallinen romaani manaa esiin aavemaisia, hiljaisia hahmoja – ja naisia.Olga Tokarczuk palaa Thomas Mannin Taikavuorelle tutkimaan sen varjopaikkoja ja lisää oman, rajoja ylittävän äänensä eurooppalaisten mestareiden vuoropuheluun.Syyskuussa 1913 puolalainen insinööriopiskelija Mieczyslaw Wojnicz saapuu Görbersdorfin parantolaan. Mieczyslaw toivoo vuoristoilman lievittävän tuberkuloosiaan. Päivät kuluvat kuunnellessa keuhkosairaiden miesten keskusteluja päivänpolttavista kysymyksistä: Puhkeaako Euroopassa sota? Mikä hallitusmuoto on paras? Onko demoneita olemassa? Toistuvasti keskustelu kääntyy olentoon, jonka vaikeaselkoisuudesta keskustelijat ovat yhtä mieltä: naiseen. Voiko nainen olla subjekti?Mieczyslawia askarruttavat myös paikalliset tarinat vuoriston oudoista tapahtumista. Parantolaakin varjostavat selittämättömät kuolemantapaukset. Millainen voima vuoristometsissä liikkuu, ja keiden katseen Mieczyslaw tuntee selässään?Puolalainen Olga Tokarczuk (s. 1962) on tärkeimpiä eurooppalaisia nykykirjailijoita. Tokarczuk opiskeli psykologiaa Varsovan yliopistossa, ja hänen teoksissaan toistuvat anarkismin ja feminismin teemat. Empusion (empusa, naisdemoni + symposion, vapaiden miesten keskustelutilaisuus antiikin Kreikassa) on Tokarczukin ensimmäinen romaani sitten hänelle vuonna 2018 myönnetyn kirjallisuuden Nobel-palkinnon.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone ... elegant and genuinely unsettling." -The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G rbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone ... elegant and genuinely unsettling." -The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G rbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone--or something--seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.