![]() ![]() ![]() He is a loner increasingly agitated with the daily routine of his post-jail life as a ferry conductor, and he begins to harbor homicidal fantasies of taking others with him into death. Flightsfollows an associative logic akin to poetry, employing images and patterns to thread together different characters and situations, despite shifts in time and place.Ĭonsider the story of Eryk, an alcoholic who learned English while reading Moby Dick in prison. Her first book, Miastra w lustra ( Cities in Mirrors), a collection of poems, was published in 1989. Though Tokarczuk is an accomplished novelist, short-story writer, and two-time winner of Poland’s highest literary honor, the Nike, she is also a poet. With keen observation and wit, Flightstakes us from airports around the world where academics give mini lectures to museums that house “freaks” of nature-the two-headed and the unborn. In 116 pieces of writing, Tokarczuk crafts a novel about journeys and the human body. She continues, “In this case, the pilgrim is in pieces, broken down.” ![]() Each of my pilgrimages aims at some other pilgrim,” says the unnamed narrator of Flights, Olga Tokarczuk’s ninth novel, which won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. ![]()
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