Flights by Olga Tokarczuk I have recently been re-reading…
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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
I have recently been re-reading all the books that have made a lasting impact on me, and got to Flights. After a philosophy professor recommended it to me some years ago, I read it and was blown away. I am usually a fan of science- and speculative-fiction, “weird” fiction, things like Ted Chiang, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges. Flights scratched a particular itch for something wonderfully bizarre, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
I was reminded a bit of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, as the story is sprawling and deals with numerous characters in vastly different settings, contexts, and time periods. It’s both realistic and fantastical, yet deeply philosophical.
What are your thoughts on the book and what it accomplished? Did you enjoy its particular structure, or did it make it hard to connect with the stories? What were your key takeaways and how did it make you feel? I’m curious to know what other people think of it (and her writing in general).
#entertainment
I have recently been re-reading all the books that have made a lasting impact on me, and got to Flights. After a philosophy professor recommended it to me some years ago, I read it and was blown away. I am usually a fan of science- and speculative-fiction, “weird” fiction, things like Ted Chiang, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges. Flights scratched a particular itch for something wonderfully bizarre, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
I was reminded a bit of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, as the story is sprawling and deals with numerous characters in vastly different settings, contexts, and time periods. It’s both realistic and fantastical, yet deeply philosophical.
What are your thoughts on the book and what it accomplished? Did you enjoy its particular structure, or did it make it hard to connect with the stories? What were your key takeaways and how did it make you feel? I’m curious to know what other people think of it (and her writing in general).
#entertainment
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