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Primeval and Other Times
Primeval and Other Times | Olga Tokarczuk
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Fiction. Central European Studies. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Tokarczuk's third novel, PRIMEVAL AND OTHER TIMES was awarded the Polityka Passport Prize in 1996 and the Koscielski Prize in 1997, which established the author as a leading voice in Polish letters. It is set in the mythical village of Primeval in the heart of Poland, which is populated by eccentric, archetypal characters. The village, a microcosm of the world, is guarded by four archangels, from whose perspective the novel chronicles the lives of Primeval's inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century. In prose that is forceful and direct, the narrative follows Poland's tortured political history from 1914 to the present and the episodic violence that is visited on ordinary village life. Yet this is also a novel of universal dimension that does not dwell on the parochial. A stylized fable as well as epic allegory about the inexorable grind of time, the clash between modernity (the masculine) and nature (the feminine), it has been hailed across Europe as a contemporary classic.
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Dilara
Primeval and Other Times | Olga Tokarczuk
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Magical realism in a Polish village in the first half of the twentieth century
#Poland #NobelPrize

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Jari-chan
Prawiek i inne czasy | Olga Tokarczuk
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After reading this book I can tell that Tokarczuk deserved winning the Nobel Prize - she has a special way of telling her story and I especially enjoyed the Magical Realism and how she used it.

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Aquedita
Primeval and Other Times | Olga Tokarczuk
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A translation of a new novel by my favorite author will finally be published soon! So excited for my friends all over the world to get a chance to experience it :) "Jacob's Scriptures" is a masterpiece.

If you're in London in March, make sure to attend this event:

http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events/2017/3/olga-tokarczuk-and-deborah-l...

In the meantime, enjoy her debut novel "Primeval and other times".

Weaponxgirl Ohhh, unfortunately I can't get to London easily. But thank you so much for the link 7y
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tricours
Prawiek i inne czasy | Olga Tokarczuk
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I enjoyed this book, but it's not one of my favorites so far this year. I like how the passage of time is felt as such an absolute inevitability and how the most mundane of events as well as horrible events (wars, occupations) just have to come and pass. Everything's a parenthesis in time.

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tricours
Prawiek i inne czasy | Olga Tokarczuk
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110 pages in and I still don't see what is supposed to be so great about this book.

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tricours
Prawiek i inne czasy | Olga Tokarczuk
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Are coffee grinders more important than people? I believe so, yes.