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"Wardrobe" Author: [Poland] Olga Tokarczuk Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Wardrobe" Author: [Poland] Olga Tokarczuk Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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◎ A collection of novels by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019), the Nike Prize, the Booker International Prize and many other awards
◎Three surreal stories: the exotic energy field in the closet, the secrets of the traces in the guest room, and the "half universe" constructed by the program code
◎Directly translated from the Polish original, it includes a special collection of literary interviews given by Tokarczuk at the Quotation Marks International Literary Festival, which she planned and organized.
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"Wardrobe" is a collection of novels by Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. It includes three works. Among them, "Wardrobe" tells the story of a couple who are attracted by an old wardrobe that is as mysterious as an energy pit and eventually live in it and don't want to come out; the narrator of "Room Number" is "I", a room attendant. In the story, "I" wanders around the different rooms of the Capital Hotel, following clues to capture the breath left by the guests; "God's Descent" is about a programming genius who is like a god of creation. He constantly builds a new world with programs, but is repeatedly disappointed with humans... In these surreal stories, Tokarczuk uses her unique "fourth-person narrative" to explore the hidden world beyond daily experience.
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☆ "Her narrative is full of encyclopedic passion and imagination, presenting a life form that transcends boundaries."
——Reasons for the Nobel Prize in Literature
☆ "She uses a new way of looking at reality, blending profound realism with fleeting illusion, observing minute details and indulging in myth, becoming one of the most original prose writers of our time. She is a master of shorthand, capturing those who are escaping Everyday people. She writes what no one else can: 'the gut-wrenching strangeness of the world. ' ... Her style—exciting and thoughtful—flows through her fifteen or so books."
——Nobel Prize in Literature Award Speech
☆ "Tokarczuk always upholds the long tradition of Poland's multicultural and multiethnic culture, raising universal issues that can resonate with readers around the world."
-- Piotr Wilczek, Polish Ambassador to the United States
☆ "Tokarczuk follows her curiosity and moves forward boldly, never being trapped by boundaries and genres. The characters she writes about are alive between the pages, and they speak their truest voices."
——The Paris Review
☆ "In Poland, Olga Tokarczuk is a household name. She is one of Europe's most important humanist writers, committed to the continental tradition of thought and prose fiction."
"As a child, Tokarczuk used her keen intuition about fairy tales and myths to construct her understanding of the connections between everything - people, animals, plants, landscapes, etc. After becoming a writer, she tried to prove through her imagination that her childhood curiosity was not rudely cut off by adult society, but continued in her works."
——The Guardian
☆ "(Tokarczuk is) one of the very few most representative European novelists of the past 25 years."
——The Economist
☆ "Tokarczuk is one of Europe's most daring and original writers, and her stunning performance is her dazzling and magnificent entrance into the field of intellectual literature."
——Los Angeles Review of Books
☆ "Tokarczuk's works are often stories about the wanderings and roamings of modern people, appearing in the form of travel, mythology and philosophical thinking."
——《Online Report》
About the Author
Olga Tokarczuk
Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019), an important contemporary European writer and a national treasure of Poland. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded for: "Her narrative is full of encyclopedic passion and imagination, presenting a life form that transcends borders." Tokarczuk is also the 15th female writer in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born in 1962, Tokarczuk graduated from the Department of Psychology at the University of Warsaw. She entered the literary world in 1989 with her poetry collection "The City in the Mirror". Her representative works include the novels "EE" (1995), "Eternity and Other Times" (1996), "House of Day, House of Night" (1998), "The Last Story" (2004), "Anna Yin in the World's Grave" (2006), "Wandering" (2007), "Ploughing the Bones of the Dead" (2009), "The Book of Jacob" (2014); the novel collections "The Wardrobe" (1997), "Drums" (2001), "A Collection of Weird Tales" (2018); the prose "Dolls and Pearls" (2001), etc.
She is good at integrating folk tales, myths, religious stories and other elements into her works to reflect the history of Poland and human life. In addition to the Nobel Prize in Literature, she has won the Nike Prize, the authoritative Polish literary award, twice with "The Wanderings" and "The Book of Jacob", and has been nominated for the Nike Prize six times; in 2010, she won the Silver Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Polish Culture; in 2015, she won the German-Polish International Friendship Bridge Award; in 2018, "The Wanderings" won the Man Booker International Prize; in 2019, "The Book of Jacob" won the French Jules Barthéon Prize, and in the same year, "The Plowing of the Bones of the Dead" was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. The film "The Earth of Bones" adapted from the novel won the Alfred Bauer Award at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
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