Tokarczuk's third novel, Primeval and Other Times was awarded the Passport Prize in 1996 and the Koscielski Prize in 1997, which established the author as one of the leading voices in Polish letters. It is set in the mythical village of Primeval in the very heart of Poland, which is populated by eccentric, archetypal characters. The village, a microcosm of Europe, is guarded by...
Tokarczuk's third novel, Primeval and Other Times was awarded the Passport Prize in 1996 and the Koscielski Prize in 1997, which established the author as one of the leading voices in Polish letters. It is set in the mythical village of Primeval in the very heart of Poland, which is populated by eccentric, archetypal characters. The village, a microcosm of Europe, 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 contemporary era and the episodic brutality that is visited on ordinary village life. Yet Primeval and Other Times is 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 translated into most European languages. Tokarczuk has said of the novel: "I always wanted to write a book such as this. One that creates and describes a world. It is the story of a world that, like all things living, is born, develops, and then dies." Kitchens, bedrooms, childhood memories, dreams and insomnia, reminiscences, and amnesia - these are part of the existential and acoustic spaces from which the voices of Tokarczuk's tale come, her "boxes in boxes."
Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962 in Sulechów near Zielona Góra, Poland. A recipient of all of Poland's top literary awards, she is one of the most critically acclaimed authors of her generation. After finishing her psychology degree at the University of Warsaw, she initially practiced as a therapist and often cites C.G. Jung as an inspiration for her work, in which mythmaking ha...
Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962 in Sulechów near Zielona Góra, Poland. A recipient of all of Poland's top literary awards, she is one of the most critically acclaimed authors of her generation. After finishing her psychology degree at the University of Warsaw, she initially practiced as a therapist and often cites C.G. Jung as an inspiration for her work, in which mythmaking has become a hallmark. Her work has received nearly every major literary award at home and abroad, and Tokarczuk's importance as a writer was recognized with her being awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2018年诺贝尔文学奖获得者是波兰作家奥尔加·托卡尔丘克（Olga Tokarczuk）。瑞典文学院授予奥尔加·托卡尔丘克的颁奖词称如下： 托卡尔丘克“对于叙事的想象充满百科全书式的热情，象征着一种跨界的生活形式。”（for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion...
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奥尔加·托卡尔丘克 作者
禾西哟
四川人民出版社2017版
呱呱天使
四川人民出版社2017版
Olivia
湖南文艺出版社2006版
LL
四川人民出版社2017版
言它
四川人民出版社2017版
0 有用 Heather.L 2020-07-27 04:48:25
completed the second-time reading in 2021
0 有用 Muse 2022-08-27 21:34:43 中国香港
结尾让人唏嘘不已，所有的东西都不在是原来的样子了！
2 有用 鳗鱼公主 2023-06-09 22:39:01 中国香港
怎么会有一本书像是能写出世界的碎片记忆一样.. Tokarczuk对资料的收集的能力 把那些边边角角被遗落的知识和小玩意儿收集整理 编排进她的小说里 真是好不可及的审美和品位..
0 有用 cantabile 2023-07-21 01:44:06 卢森堡
買不到英文實體書讀的kindle版，看書封縮略圖一直都以為那個白色的形狀是一隻白鹿，標記「已讀」後點開圖片才發現是那棟房子。無論是在波蘭的村莊還是任何其他地方，我們處理信息（process information)和理解世界的方式都無大出入，都是夢的延伸——「印象」較之「現實」，不同視角下的「現實」，「印象」等於「現實」⋯
0 有用 半个桃李林檎 2019-01-15 23:26:17
作者找了一种《小镇畸人》的叙事方式来讲一个波兰村镇的历史，表面上是奇人、怪人、庸人的日常生活，但穿梭的一丝奇幻让虚实相生，暗含的是波兰民族的命运：在迷茫中追求独立寻找个性，在压抑中坚韧、颓败或者疯狂。这也为中国小说家通过写“未开化”的时期和个体来映射民族、时代提供了借鉴。英译版竟然是捷克出版的，翻译语言不知道是刻意模仿原文的粗砺，还是译者彰显自己的极简风格；与自然相关的部分描写还是比较好