Olga Tokarczuk jako pisarka ekofeministyczna albo o czym może świadczyć literatura
Olga Tokarczuk as an Eco-feminist Author or What Literature Can Testify

Summary/Abstract: This text is dedicated to the self-agency of literature in reference to relations between fiction and testimony. The authors undertake the task of demonstrating that even books, which derive from the imagination of authors and present the story of fictitious characters, can say about the real world more than archival documents and court files. The belles lettres are capable of articulating that, which cannot be told upon the basis of proof (they can testify about reality). The authors of the article refer their observations to the oeuvre of the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. The motif reappearing in the entire text is the question of relations between man and other living creatures, of great importance for the Nobel Prize winner. Subjugation, power, and attempts at overcoming the latter (as in the story of St. Francis and the wolf). Tokarczuk argues that literary fiction can be more vivid than reality, and upon numerous occasions brings to life characters more genuine than those actually living. Such a person appears to be Janina Duszejko, the protagonist of one of Tokarczuk’s books - Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead). In another part of the text the authors explain why Tokarczuk could be described as an eco-feminist writer.

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