![]() ![]() ![]() In The Books of Jacob Tokarczuk’s imagination, exhaustive research, and writing skills have brought to life Poland in the eigh- teenth century, with all its ethnic groups, tragedies, atrocities, cultural achievements, aspirations, and conflicts, as well as its interconnection with Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant developments in Eastern and Cen- tral Europe and the Ottoman Empire. As expressed in The Books of Jacob’s subtitle, Imagination. This essay examines Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s works, especially "Flights" and "Księgi Jakubowe" (the English- language version, "The Books of Jacob is scheduled for publication in March 2021), with special attention to Tokarczuk’s recurrent themes and the challenges of rendering her often allusive and myth-laden prose into English. ![]()
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