Sensitive narrator

“A Sensitive Narrator” is the title of Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel speech and her first book published after winning the Nobel Prize. This is a collection of essays in which the author shares her reading and spectating experiences, talks about animal rights, honors the contribution of translators, and reflects on the role of travel and her own creativity. She tells how some of her books were born, how ideas emerged, characters gradually gained strength, and narrators came into their own. Rational analysis of her own work is combined here with an irrational experience of literature — a miracle that we can touch.