Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk

Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk

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.

Olga Tokarczuk was born in the Polish town of Sulechów, near Zielona Góra, in the year 1962. She is one of the most highly praised authors of her generation, having won all of Poland's top literary honors. She began her career as a therapist after completing her psychology degree at the University of Warsaw, and she frequently refers to C.G. Jung as a source of inspiration for her art, which has become known for its mythmaking. Tokarczuk's value as a writer was recognized with the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, which she garnered practically every major literary prize at home and abroad.

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ISBN 13	9788086264356
ISBN 10	8086264351
Title	Primeval and Other Times
Author	Olga Tokarczuk
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Twisted Spoon Press
Year published	2010-01-15
Number of pages	248
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