Primeval and Other Times eBook Olga Tokarczuk Antonia LloydJones
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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. It has been translated into many languages throughout the world and hailed as a contemporary European classic.
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."
Primeval and Other Times eBook Olga Tokarczuk Antonia LloydJones
It takes a while to get used to the choppy writing style early on, but her sentences get longer and more interesting as the plot develops. What you have here is a tale told by many voices, many of which eventually come together to create a collage of life in this little Polish village. A very post-modern writing style and very enjoyable.Product details
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Primeval and Other Times eBook Olga Tokarczuk Antonia LloydJones Reviews
This is an extraordinary book and should be widely read. It is the story of a Polish village, Primeval, over the course of the 20th century. The writing is electrifying and is able to convincingly portray the state of mind of Polish peasants, Nazi and Russian soldiers, and Communists, as well as an icon, the secret world of the mushroom spawn, a ghost, a mystical game of chance, and a vain and flighty God.
The stories of human couples are intertwined with the natural and spiritual world in a series of short chapters that form a mosaic of human and non-human experience. The writing is so powerful that the reader is not so much reading as being. The plot is less important than the place, which is numinous. This reader did feel that she was indeed in the presence of something primeval.
I stumbled upon Primeval in the Polish Literature section of an expat bookstore in Krakow. I was looking for something that reflected modern Polish literature in the post-Communist setting. Most of the books I had seen were written about WWII or before. On first inspection it may seem odd then that I settled on Primeval which is rooted in the 20th century beginning as WWI broke out and ending sometime near the end of Communism. Yet as I read the opening I was almost instantly draw to the magical realism that enveloped this story of a town and its inhabitants during their "time."
The writing in and of itself is reason to read this enchanting tale but to assume that is all Primeval has to offer does not do it justice. The intertwining tales of the village and its inhabitants both human and not as they experience the world change, God go in and out of favor, and the natural progression of age have a captivating and authentic feel. As the years go forward, each character develops in ways that real people do and the lives become ones that begin to feel like family. Their sorrows are yours. So too are their joys.
This is a story that will stick with you. It will change the way you perceive time, space and relationships. In the end it will feel like the most real book you have read in a lifetime.
A family story of the past
I read Primeval and Other Times while spending six weeks in Goleniow Poland. I was having a hard time getting "in touch" with the land and feeling the culture. While this small town was German for centuries before World War II, it is both different and similar to Primeval. None-the-less, Takarczuk's writing gave me a much better appreciation of the trials that my neighbors and their immediate ancestors endured in the 20th century. I will definitely recommend this novel to any visitor to the beautiful country.
It takes a while to get used to the choppy writing style early on, but her sentences get longer and more interesting as the plot develops. What you have here is a tale told by many voices, many of which eventually come together to create a collage of life in this little Polish village. A very post-modern writing style and very enjoyable.
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