Olga Tokarczuk

Lidia Wiśniewska is Professor and Head of World Literature and Comparative Literary Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is the author of three monographs on Polish and world literature from a comparative perspective and over a hundred book chapters and journal articles. She has edited 18 collections of essays, and coedited four; most recently (with Grażyna Borkowska) a book on Polish literature in international context, Another Canon: The Polish Nineteenth-Century Novel in World Context (2020). She is the vice president of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society, where she is chair of the Comparative and Didactic Committees. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Wiek XIX, responsible for the comparative section. Jakub Lipski is a university professor and Head of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. He is the author of three monographs and a number of articles and book chapters on eighteenth-century English literature. He has also co-edited a special issue of the journal Comparisons (vol. 25, 2019) on The Robinsonade and Comparative Studies and edited acollection of essays on Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, and Media (2020).

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Note on editions used

Tokarczuk and a comparative reconnaissance: Preliminary remarks.

Lidia Wiśniewska

Chapter 1

Olga Tokarczuk and Daniel Kehlmann: Genres, Themes, Languages, and Positions in the Literary Field

Rafał Pokrywka

Chapter 2

On the Borderland of Judaism, Islam and Christianity: Unorthodox Religious Experience in Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob and Milorad Pavić’s Dictionary of the Khazars

Michał Moch

Chapter 3

Integrating narratives: The art of storytelling according to Isaac Bashevis Singer and Olga Tokarczuk

Marek Stanisz

Chapter 4

Found souls: Olga Tokarczuk meets Joanna Concejo

Magdalena Rabizo-Birek

Chapter 5

Heterotopias in the Prose of Olga Tokarczuk: The Literary Images of Cabinets de Curiosités and Scientists’ Study Rooms in the Context of the Visual Arts

Ewa Górecka

Chapter 6

Metamorphoses of Myths in Anna In in the Tombs of the World

Lidia Wiśniewska

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