5/13/2023 0 Comments Blake drive your plow![]() No vignettes this time: it’s a classic novel structure, each chapter framed with a quotation by William Blake. It’s witty, often very funny, and retains the talent for sharp observation we know from ‘Flights’. Where ‘Flights’ was experimental in its content and form, ‘Drive your plow’ is formally more conventional. ![]() ‘Drive your plow’, which I will call it for the sake of brevity, is a different kettle of fish altogether. Together, they formed a sort of ‘traveller’s notebook’, as much dedicated to the wandering mind of an airport stopover as to bigger questions of mortality and the body. ‘Flights’, last year’s well deserving prize winner, was made up of seemingly disconnected fragments. After the groundbreaking, daring and utterly weird ‘Flights’, Olga Tokarczuk was going to have a hard time entering another winner into the International Man Booker Prize competition. ![]()
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