Olga Tokarczuk's Reading List

It's fascinating to read poetry in its original form, says the Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, whose latest novel in English is The Books of Jacob, but it's just as fascinating to read it in a variety of translations.

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By the Book: Olga Tokarczuk (2022)

NYT By the Book column (2022-02-10).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Hearing Trumpet

Leonora Carrington · Buy on Amazon

"It's an extraordinary surrealist tale — hilarious and terrifying — and one that everyone should read. Hers is a unique voice, full of light and gravitas at once, a truly revolutionary spirit."

Auto-da-Fe

Elias Canetti · Buy on Amazon

"Herr Doktor Peter Kien is a reclusive and eccentric bibliophile from a book I adore, Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe. He's a character who fascinates me, whom I find simultaneously alluring and repellent."

Anne of Green Gables

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"Fairly quickly I started reading novels — Verne, Lem, but also Anne of Green Gables."

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann · Buy on Amazon

"Every few years I read Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain — it's interesting to see a book change with time, and that is one that must be read differently with age."

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