The metaphysics of death in prose of Olga Tokarczuk

Abstract

The article presents and analyses the motive of death in the works of Olga Tokarczuk. The author focuses on anthropological and philosophic grasp of that category in her narrative prose. The text included here is a fragment of one of the chapters of author’s doctoral thesis entitled: The metaphysics of death, time and love in the works of Olga Tokarczuk.