FLIGHTS

Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuks most ambitious to date. It interwea ves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and m igration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffe d and put...[Read more]