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"Dolls and Pearls" Author: [Poland] Olga Tokarczuk Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Dolls and Pearls" Author: [Poland] Olga Tokarczuk Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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▷Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, shares her most personal reading experience; translated directly from the original Polish work
▷Starting from the literary treasure "The Doll", which is known as the "Polish Dream of the Red Chamber"
▷Explore many themes such as vanity, love, opposite sex, magician, alchemy, etc.
▷Why do we come to this world? What is the essence of literature? What does it mean to be a person? How to find the true self in illusion and wandering? The answers are all in this book
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【Content Introduction】
"Dolls and Pearls" is a prose work by Tokarczuk that analyzes the novel "Dolls" by Polish writer Prus. "Dolls" is a famous critical realist work in the 19th century and is known as the Polish "Dream of Red Mansions". "Ode to the Pearl" is a fairy tale translated into Polish by Milosz, about a prince who forgets himself while searching for treasure among the people.
Starting from "The Doll" and "Ode to the Pearl", Tokarczuk presents us with a reading lesson from a literary master. She explores many themes such as vanity, love, alienation, magicians, alchemy, etc. Tokarczuk hopes to lead us to think through her reading map: Why do we come to this world? What is the essence of literature? What does it mean to be a person? How to find the true self in illusion and wandering?
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【Media Recommendation】
“Her narrative is full of encyclopedic passion and imagination, presenting a life form that transcends boundaries.”
——Reasons for the Nobel Prize in Literature
"With her new way of looking at reality, blending profound realism with fleeting fantasy, her keen observation and her love of myth, she has become one of the most original prose writers of our time. She is a master of shorthand, capturing people who are escaping from their daily lives. She writes what others cannot: 'the painful strangeness of the world.' ... Her style - stirring and thoughtful - flows through her fifteen or so books."
——Nobel Prize in Literature Award Speech
"Olga Tokarczuk's discussion of Prous's novel The Doll confirms her own uniqueness. Tokarczuk may be the only writer of her generation who truly understands tradition - a spiritual community based on the problems that arose at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The book discusses the relationship between science and art, knowledge and metaphysics, the inner freedom of the individual and external history. But the most important thing in the book is, of course, Prous. Tokarczuk read the novel slowly with respect for her elder predecessor."
—Grazia Balkowska, Polish cultural journal Res Publica Nova
"Dolls and Pearls proves the greatness of Prouss's novel, and also records Tokarczuk's private reading experience combined with her own worldview and experience. She believes that Dolls is an enlightenment novel that describes the process of people searching for and finding the meaning of life."
—Kazimierz Mecig, Polish literary journal Fraza
"With a natural feminine delicacy and tenderness, and with a keen eye, she strives to sink into the heart of all things and become a part of the world, and then speaks for all things and tells stories for the world. This is what makes Tokarczuk different, and it is also what makes her extraordinary."
——Zhao Gang, professor of Polish at Beijing Foreign Studies University
“Tokarczuk has always been committed to 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 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 foremost humanist writers, committed to the continental tradition of thought and essayist 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
About the Author
【About the Author】
Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded in 2019), is 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."
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 Grave of the World" (2006), "Wandering" (2007), "Bone Soil" (2009), "The Book of Jacob" (2014); the novel collections "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 Soil of Bones" was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. The film of the same name "The Soil of Bones" won the Alfred Bauer Award at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Translator’s Profile
Zhang Zhenhui, male, born in 1934, is a scholar and translator of Polish literature. He graduated from the Department of Language and Literature of the University of Warsaw in Poland in 1960. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, and enjoys a special government allowance from the State Council. He has been engaged in the research and translation of Polish literature at the institute for a long time.
He has written academic monographs such as "A Critical Biography of Sienkiewicz", "A History of Polish Literature in the 20th Century", and "A Brief History of Eastern European Literature" (co-authored). He has translated the long masterpieces "Where Are You Going" and "The Knights of the Crusades" by the Polish writer Sienkiewicz, the long masterpiece "The Promised Land" by Lemont, and "The Doll" by Pruss. "A History of Polish Literature in the 20th Century" won the third prize of the third outstanding scientific research achievement award of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and "A History of Eastern European Literature" won the second prize of the first national book award. In 1997, he was awarded the "Polish Cultural Merit Medal" by the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art, and in 2000 he was awarded the Knight's Cross Medal by the President of the Republic of Poland.
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