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Primeval and Other Times

Primeval and Other Times

Primeval and Other Times

Traducció: Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Editorial: Twisted Spoon

Pàgines: 284

Any: 2010

EAN: 9788086264356

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Sobre el libro Primeval and Other Times de Olga Tokarczuk publicado por Twisted Spoon al 2010:

Set in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated by eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, the novel chronicles the lives of the inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century in prose that is forceful, direct, and the stylistic cousin of the magic realism in Gabriel García Márquez´s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Told in short bursts of "Time," the narrative takes the form of a stylized fable, an epic allegory about the inexorable grind of time and the clash between modernity (the masculine) and nature (the feminine) in which Poland´s tortured political history from 1914 to the contemporary era and the episodic brutality visited on ordinary village life is played out. A novel of universal dimension that does not dwell on the parochial, Primeval and Other Times was awarded the Koscielski Foundation Prize in 1997, which established Tokarczuk as one of the leading voices in Polish letters...
Olga Tokarczuk

Sobre Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk, una de les millors i més celebrades escriptores poloneses actuals, ha rebut el Premi Nobel de Literatura 2018, atorgat en 2019, i ha estat guardonada amb premis com el Brueckepreis o el Nike, el més prestigiós dels que es concedeixen al seu país. Autora de nou novel·les i tres llibres de relats, les seves obres s´han traduït a quaranta-cinc llengües i li han valgut el reconeixement de col·legues com Annie Proulx («Una escriptora del nivell de W. G. Sebald»)...

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