Olga Tokarczuk - Flights

Olga Tokarczuk - FlightsFlights, a novel about travel in the twenty first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuks most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have

With bilingual texts

The original pictures were made as objective records of activities unfamiliar to the lay public: the scenes of crimes

an open symbol

Over the course of seven voyages and numerous chance encounters

It’s a fantasy world

A fictional account of the photographer’s quest for identity

tenderness

or the shifting of emotions

“why anything at all

the book is a curation of both analog and digital photographs

redaction and selection

creolization