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wydanie I, 1996
format: 125 x 195
oprawa: twarda
ISBN: 83-87021-01-6
Prawa przekładowe sprzedano do: Francji, Holandii, Danii, Niemiec, Włoch, Czech, Hiszpanii, Katalonii, na Litwę |
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Olga TokarczukPrawiek and other times
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The third novel in Olga Tokarczuk's career was greeted by the critics as her best book. Prawiek and other times is an epic allegory about the destructive force of time, set against the over eighty-year story of a mythical village near Kielce and its inhabitants. Tokarczuk has tried in her work to create a myth which would be the means to find oneself in history. Combining realism with magic, ignoring the worlds of politics and history with a capital "H," she has created a novel of universal dimension.
The author was awarded the Polityka passport for 1996, and in 1997 the Koscielski Prize. The book was nominated for the NIKE Literary Prize, and won a readers' plebiscite.
"Whoever once saw the borders of the world will be imprisoned by this painful experience." (Prawiek and other Times)
"Tokarczuk builds a myth from the cuttings of real history, this is a history penetrated with order, where all events, even the tragic and bad have their justification." (Jerzy Sosnowski, Gazeta Wyborcza).
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