Published: 2020-07-21

From Flights to Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead – some remarks on the reception of the world of Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction in Romania

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Abstract

This paper presents the most important aspects of the reception of four novels by Olga Tokarczuk translated into Romanian, on the basis of reviews published in the Romanian literary press. The topics addressed most frequently by Romanian reviewers include the topos of journey, the contemporary human condition within the framework of everyday life, the axiological system of Olga Tokarczuk’s narrative world, the rich imagination, the fragmentary narrative, and the tendency to cross interdisciplinary boundaries. An amazing imagination, an exceptional literary talent, surprising combinations and multifaceted protagonists are only some of the elements of Olga Tokarczuk’s writing praised by Romanian reviewers. Tokarczuk’s novels are appreciated in Romania due to both the relevance of their themes, however uncomfortable they might be, and their great ability to translate such tough topics into literature.

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Godun, C. (2020). From Flights to Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead – some remarks on the reception of the world of Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction in Romania. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 25(1), 135–145. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2020.25.10

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Olga Tokarczuk

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2020)
Published: 2020-07-30


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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