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I keep wondering if these days it’s possible to find the foundations of a new story that’s universal, comprehensive, all-inclusive, rooted in nature, full of contexts and at the same time understandable.

— Olga Tokarczuk Nobel Prize lecture (2019)

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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.

We’re living in such a crazy world that we need to redefine what a novel is for us.

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.

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