Published: 2024-08-01

The Eco-Logic of Olga Tokarczuk’s Prose Worlds Tenderness and Anger as the Pillars of a New Order

Magdalena Ochwat Logo ORCID , Małgorzata Wójcik-Dudek Logo ORCID

Website: https://us.edu.pl/instytut/il/osoby/malgorzata-wojcik-dudek/
Section: varia - follow-ups and anticipations
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14770

Abstract

In this paper, we offer a reading of selected novels by 2018 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk in terms of their dedication to changing the world. We show that Tokarczuk’s essays and fiction defy genre limits and invite readers to exercise their imagination in conceptualising the world and redefining values. The alternative modes of viewing reality proposed by Tokarczuk may provide a starting point for change, in which the synergy of ostensibly mutually exclusive tenderness and anger kindles hope in the times of crisis and inspires courage to embrace change and, in doing so, to use the opportune moment (kairos) and institute a new order – one based on justice for the bio-community.

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Ochwat, M., & Wójcik-Dudek, M. (2024). The Eco-Logic of Olga Tokarczuk’s Prose Worlds Tenderness and Anger as the Pillars of a New Order. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (48), 351–369. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.14770

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No. 48 (2024)
Published: 2024-08-23


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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