Always Towards, Not From-to. Experiment, Travel, and Deconstruction in Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Cover Image

Zawsze ku, nie od–do. Eksperyment, podróż i dekonstrukcja w Biegunach Olgi Tokarczuk
Always Towards, Not From-to. Experiment, Travel, and Deconstruction in Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Author(s): Krzysztof Hoffmann
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Czasu Kultury
Keywords: journey; Odyssey paradigm; catastrophe; subject – identity – otherness triad;

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to Olga Tokarczuk’s book, Bieguni (Flights), for which the writer was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. The exit point is the category of an “experiment” used in reference to Flights in the English-speaking world (and absent in its Polish reception). The analysis reveals the contiguity between Tokarczuk’s diagnoses and the findings made by Catherine Malabou and Jacques Derrida in the book Voyager avec Jacques Derrida – La Contre-allée.

  • Issue Year: XV/2019
  • Issue No: 03/EN
  • Page Range: 113-120
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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