![]() ![]() However, the core of its narrative revolves about the eighteenth-century Polish Jew Jacob Frank, born Jakub Lejbowicz (1726-1791). The Books of Jacob is an epic novel that spans many centuries and countries. ![]() Tokarczuk, the first Polish female prose writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018, has been praised for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” My review will investigate more carefully the nature of this crossing of boundaries that one may elicit from Tokarczuk’s novel as it relates specifically to the relationship between fact and fiction in both her own text and the historical phenomenon that it theatrically and artistically dramatizes. ![]() The acclaim for Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob is demonstrated in its receiving the Nike Award, Poland’s top literary prize. ![]()
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