Flights

Flights a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy is Olga Tokarczuks most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body broaching life death motion and migration. 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 Austri...See More