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In The Books of Jacob, her masterpiece, 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk writes the story of Frank through the perspectives of his contemporaries, capturing Enlightenment Europe on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.
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Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries—those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is— The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.
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Perhaps it seems like an odd time to study the forgotten history of a Jewish mystic and the cult he inspired, but at its heart, The Books of Jacob is about the desire for emancipation amidst a fractured and multifaceted reality—one that looks a lot like ours. And a Messiah, even an ambiguous one, only ever arrives in the darkest moments of ...
The Books of Jacob is a 912-page novel divided into seven books. It begins in 1752 in Rohatyn and ends in Holocaust-era Korolówka. [8] . Its title subject is Jacob Frank, a Polish Jew who claimed to be the messiah. The novel combines dozens of third-person perspectives of those connected to Jacob Frank. [9]
- Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
- 2014
XXL. 16. 16. 48. 44. 34. GBP. CHAT. She Mad is a book assemblage of Martine Syms’ periodic, conceptual sitcom of the same title, that follows a semi-autobiographical narrative of a young woman also named Martine, a habitual stoner and graphic designer attempting to gain notoriety for her artistic practice in Hollywood.
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