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Flights
- Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
- Durée: 12 h et 32 min
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Description
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize
National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)
"A magnificent writer." (Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time)
"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." (Washington Post)
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.
Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. "Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going?" we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"What’s in a novel? This Man Booker International Prize winner reads like a rigorous response to that question in the best, most edifying (and maddening) way…Magnificently translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft, Flights has the scattered intimate quality of a personal diary, its magic wedded to its singularity. It’s an unexpected, funny journey into that most elusive of places - the human condition." (Entertainment Weekly)
“A revelation … Flights is a witty, imaginative, hard-to-classify work that is in the broadest sense about travel…. In this risky, restlessly mercurial book, Tokarczuk has found a way of turning…philosophy into writing that doesn't just take flight but soars.” (NPR’s “Fresh Air”)
“A beautifully fragmented look at man’s longing for permanence...ambitious and complex.” (Washington Post)
“It’s a busy, beautiful vexation, this novel, a quiver full of fables of pilgrims and pilgrimages, and the reasons - the hidden, the brave, the foolhardy - we venture forth into the world …In Jennifer Croft’s assured translation, each self-enclosed account is tightly conceived and elegantly modulated, the language balletic, unforced.” (The New York Times)
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Ce que les auditeurs disent de Flights
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Roger Perrault
- 2019-02-13
Fabulous story
A new author for me. I can see why she won the International Booker prize. Reminds me of Lincoln in the Bardo. Disjointed tales that all come together in the end.
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- Ghazal Hemmati
- 2020-02-16
No regrets but not impressed either.
I always read a novel/short story by a contemporary writer in between classic masterpieces, and therefore I’m quite a difficult reader to impress as such true masters as Joyce and Proust set the bar too high. That’s why I could not give Flights more than 3 stars. The book consists of 118 chapters ranging from mostly a few-min audios to few 1-hour ones.
I found a few chapters very interesting but the rest were mostly prosaic.
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- Noldo
- 2023-02-20
The stream of author's conscience.
Narrator was great and performed fabulous reading that flashes of author's conscience. The author doesn't like Christian culture and same can be seen when she writes about Poland and everything what is connected to that country. She prefers everything which she doesn't understand and which doesn't have Latin roots.
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- jaimie
- 2021-06-20
OK
At times, the story lines were absolutely riveting and at other times, I was lost and uninterested. Overall, it was an interesting listen and yet with so many unanswered questions and details that lead nowhere, the ending fell flat.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2021-04-14
Extraordinary
The book reveals an extraordinary knowledge about the World in general and a really deep research on the themes considered in the book. Absolutely love it. I have previously read the book in Polish Bieguni and in English Flights. Translation is amazingly sensible.Thank you for letting me listen to it . i have refreshed my attachment to the book.
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