Olga Tokarczuk

Lidia Wiśniewska is Professor and Head of World Literature and Comparative Literary Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is the author of three monographs on Polish and world literature from a comparative perspective and over a hundred book chapters and journal articles. She has edited 18 collections of essays, and coedited four; most recently (with Grażyna Borkowska) a book on Polish literature in international context, Another Canon: The Polish Nineteenth-Century Novel in World Context (2020). She is the vice president of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society, where she is chair of the Comparative and Didactic Committees. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Wiek XIX, responsible for the comparative section.Jakub Lipski is a university professor and Head of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. He is the author of three monographs and a number of articles and book chapters on eighteenth-century English literature. He has also co-edited a special issue of the journal Comparisons (vol. 25, 2019) on The Robinsonade and Comparative Studies and edited acollection of essays on Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, and Media (2020).

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsNote on editions usedTokarczuk and a comparative reconnaissance: Preliminary remarks.Lidia WiśniewskaChapter 1Olga Tokarczuk and Daniel Kehlmann: Genres, Themes, Languages, and Positions in the Literary FieldRafał PokrywkaChapter 2On the Borderland of Judaism, Islam and Christianity: Unorthodox Religious Experience in Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob and Milorad Pavić’s Dictionary of the Khazars Michał MochChapter 3Integrating narratives: The art of storytelling according to Isaac Bashevis Singer and Olga TokarczukMarek StaniszChapter 4Found souls: Olga Tokarczuk meets Joanna ConcejoMagdalena Rabizo-BirekChapter 5Heterotopias in the Prose of Olga Tokarczuk: The Literary Images of Cabinets de Curiosités and Scientists’ Study Rooms in the Context of the Visual Arts Ewa GóreckaChapter 6Metamorphoses of Myths in Anna In in the Tombs of the World Lidia WiśniewskaIndex