5/26/2023 0 Comments Plow over![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.” We decide what’s good and what isn’t, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves… And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. “You know what, sometimes it seems to me we’re living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. These are big themes, and they are presented in a very thought provoking, intelligent way, wrapped around a mystery, this can’t be seen as a traditional crime story. Examining traditional ideas of ‘madness,’ animal rights and the hypocrisy of religion Drive your Plow… is also a wonderful portrayal of the lives of those living in isolation who don’t conform to everyone else’s way of thinking. In this extraordinary, and endlessly readable novel Olga Tokarczuk is exploring lots of things at once. At least there’s no risk of a misunderstanding.” ![]() “The best conversations are with yourself. It’s a literary novel presented as a kind of mystery – although it is much more than that. The title comes from William Blake’s Proverb’s of Hell. Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead was the one that appealed most as a place to start. I have wanted to read Olga Tokarczuk’s work for a while and have had two novels by the 2019 Nobel winner for some time. Well here I am reviewing things out of order – so that I can properly join in with #Fitzcarraldofortnight. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ![]()
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