ARGONAUT BOOKS

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate's latest masterwork, set in a sanatorium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas. Reviews 'Tokarczuk's fiction is built on filtering fragments of the past - people, stories, myths, orthodoxies - through a contemporary lens…. The Empusium is much less a debate of ideas than a study of our perception and the limits of sensory experience. Reality, or rather its elusiveness, preoccupies much of Tokarczuk's work, which frequently blends genres as a way to get closer to, if not at, wh...Read More