Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human
anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's 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 Austrian courtier
stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth
century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey
from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife
accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a
cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a
young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday
on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga
Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity
and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
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