The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk (Fitzcarraldo Editions) magazine The New Yorker

The New Yorker

these shifts required and begat different roles for artistic practice

Washington Post

Fluid and unselfconscious

Earnestly collages texts from the artist’s transdisciplinary practice

The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk (Fitzcarraldo Editions) magazine The New YorkerIn the mid eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as