I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Flights: Let me know what you think of Flights, and happy summer reading everyone!
I also enjoyed Tokarczuk’s mystery novel Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, although that one is better read in winter, and I look forward to reading her recently translated magnum opus, The Book of Jacob, an epic novel of the Frankist movement in Poland, but at 912 pages it may be slightly too large to fit into your beach bag. This is an extraordinary book, in an excellent translation, that I expect I will return to again in moments of travel through life. You will meet a 17th century Dutch Anatomist who discovers the Achilles tendon in an unexpected way, a woman returning to her native Poland to poison her childhood sweetheart, A wife and child who disappear from their husband to return weeks later with no explanation, and academics who give lectures at airline gates to captive audiences.
The structure of the book itself is designed for a travelling reader - the small vignettes make it easy to pick up and put down, for example when going between a plane and an airport terminal, without sacrificing the literary quality. (The original Polish title, Bieguni, refers to a sect of the Old Believers who believe that constant motion is a way to avoid evil.) The book is a meditation on travel, and on the psychology of people in states of motion. Her books are always full of eccentric characters and rich prose.įlights takes the form of what Tokarczuk calls a “Constellation Novel” - a disciple of Jung, she strings together vignettes, short stories, and essays (some only one sentence long) loosely associated as she creates a psychological portrait of her narrator. Olga Tokarczuk is the first Polish woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and perhaps the most internationally beloved living Polish writer. If you are looking for a vacation read that is thought provoking, beautifully written, and exciting, I recommend Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center.Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum.My Account Accessibility Hours Contact Donate Search for: Search What to search
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