Quotes from Olga Tokarczuk's books, and about them
Flights on Anathemas and Admirations: “And it was clear to me that our mission was to graze the dust in search of a mystery stripped of anything serious.' * (Anathemas and Admirations, by Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard).”
Flights on Nowe Ateny (New Athens): “Its author was a Catholic priest named Benedykt Chmielowski who hailed from Volhynia... In a chapter with the lengthy title of 'On other strange and wonderful persons of the world: That is, Anacepholus, alias Headless, or Cynocephalus, alias Dog-Headed...', he writes: ...”
Flights on Corporis Humani Anatomia: “when several years later in 1693 I was sent by the printer to show Verheyen the fat edition of his first book – the great anatomical atlas, Corporis Humani Anatomia, still damp from the printer's ink.”
Flights on The Clinical Syndromes: “We had better take a peek at this old edition (published in the seventies) of The Clinical Syndromes, which is an encyclopaedia of syndromes of sorts.”