More quotes by Olga Tokarczuk
Language directs perspective and, as such, always carries a value judgment; it evaluates reality by choosing what will be described or discussed.
Every change in the world starts with some kind of idea, reflection or thought.
If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however brilliant, rather hard to travel.
Art is a huge space for cognitive and conscious experiments, and it uses different sorts of efforts to describe reality. Tale, fairy tale, metaphor, parable are tools that literature has been using for centuries.
There was no breakthrough, I’ve always been like this – I’ve always been interested in animals, their rights, vegetarianism. I know there are many people like that around me.
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