![]() ![]() In this way, Tokarczuk creates a layered novel, where the main character is the idea of movement. In fact, the voice of the author alternates with other narrators, while maps and paintings intersperse the text. ![]() But the author represents these themes in an innovative way, which makes Flights different from similar travel narration. In Flights, the reader can find Tokarczuk’s recurrent themes, such as voyage, loneliness, and rootlessness. The book is split into 116 different pieces, some one sentence long, some running up to thirty pages. Flights is a compendium of Tokarczuk’s imagery and pieces, where reflections and writing about travel and movement play the most important part. It was published in 2018, the same year in which the author was awarded the Nobel prize and the Man Booker International Prize. Flights is a novel by the Polish Nobel Prize-winning writer Olga Tokarczuk. ![]()
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