Olga Tokarczuk, born 29 January 1962, is a native of Sulechów, a town in southwest Poland. Some of the Times are interrelated, as in the case of the Niebieski family some closely peripheral, like that of Cornspike, a witch-healer who lives in the forest with her daughter Ruta and some emerge only once, such as the Time of Kurt, a German officer stationed to Primeval during the occupation.¹ About Olga Tokarczuk: Each Time tells the story of a different character or locale-human, animal, vegetable, mineral, and spirit. Centered around the fate of the Niebieski family (Michał, Genowefa, Misia Boska, and Izydor), whose struggles and loves during a century of war and occupation determine the book’s dramatic arc, Primeval and Other Times is structured into short chapters, the “Times” of the novel’s title. Primeval and Other Times the story of three generations of a small Polish village called Primeval, from 1914 to the beginnings of Solidarity in 1980. I love how you can enjoy this book on several levels – historical, cultural, or even metaphysical, says Ordon. But things last, and this lasting is more alive than anything else.” -from Primeval and Other Times Plants dream that they live more intensely than things. Animals sense that they live more intensely than plants and things. “People think they live more intensely than animals, than plants, and especially than things.
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