Julia Wiedlocha
Auteur de House of Day, House of Night
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The history of the region and its shift in identity form a recurrent theme: There are tales of the Germans who were displaced from the region in 1945 and of the displaced Poles from further East who were moved into the houses the Germans left behind. Other stories take us into the spatial liminality of the border with Czechoslovakia, but never quite manage to get out of the confinement of the wet, deep valleys that never get direct sun in the winter months.
Tokarczuk also seems to be very interested in the way the isolated hill country has accommodated eccentric forms of spirituality: in particular the cult of a gender-bending medieval saint (Kümmernis, or Wilgefortis) and the story of the equally gender-bending monk who's writing her biography. And there’s a mysterious community of heretical knife-makers (some kind of Waldensians?) that keeps popping up on the fringes of the narrative. Mushrooms and other food also feature heavily, and we are drawn into discussions about the nature of dreams and the way they do or don’t intersect with fictional narrative.
Very interesting and absorbing, but — as so often with Tokarczuk — I’m not entirely sure where it was meant to be going. The point seems to be the journey, rather than the destination.… (plus d'informations)