Historie palimpsestowe Olgi Tokarczuk. Literackie zabawy (z) Eco?
The Olga Tokarczuk’s palimpsest stories. Literary fun (with) Eco?

Author(s): Krystyna Pietrych
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: novel; intertextuality; narrative; model reader; novel illusion
Summary/Abstract: The text is an attempt to demonstrate non-obvious relationships and affinities between the novels by the eminent Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk and Umberto Eco’s fiction and theoretical reflection on literature. This relationship turns out to be so complex that it becomes worthy of deeper consideration. For that purpose, I chose two novels by Tokarczuk – the first one and latest. These two achievements are the most multifaceted references to Eco’s novels, while also connecting the works by the Polish writer with a unique, “Ecoean” intertextual link. Far more space is dedicate to the last novel, Books of Jacob, because of its incomparably more extensive problematic content, both in terms of technique and the aesthetic, which builds a complex semantic structure. I bring out the multiplicity of intertextual relations, however the most important strategy used by both writers turns out to be double coding.

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