The Polish original was entitled Bieguni, after a peculiar (possibly apocryphal) sect who believed that the only way to escape the power of the Antichrist was to avoid stability, “anything that has a stable place in this world - every country, church, every human government, everything that has a preserved form in this hell - is at his command. His eyes attentively probe their constellations, positionings, the directions they point in, the shapes they make.įlights, published by perhaps the UK’s finest publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and seamlessly translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft (who translates from Argentinian Spanish as well as Polish), is the first Olga Tokarczuk novel I have read, but it certainly won’t be the last.
Throughout this beautiful chaos, threads of meaning spread in all directions, networks of strange logic.
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