@ARTICLE{Prokop-Janiec_Eugenia_History_2022,
 author={Prokop-Janiec, Eugenia},
 number={No 3 (372)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={449-469},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2022},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={This article discusses Olga Tokarczuk's idea of the historical novel formulated in her metacritical reflections. It focuses on the concept of conjecture which she herself finds crucial to her writing practice. Tokarczuk stresses the cognitive value of this method which allows her to bring in voices that have been drowned out with their stories and to recover the material, sensual experience of a bygone world. This reading of the Books of Jacob draws on her double-track definition of conjecture to analyze her writing strategy aimed at method this makes use of this double he with stories that have been left out in the past and to fill in the gaps and revise the distortions of the standard, 'written' historical narrative. The affirmation of the value of historical knowledge, tempered by the awareness of its limitations, situates Tokarczuk's fiction within the aesthetic of contemporary neo-historical novel.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={History and conjecture in Olga Tokarczuk's Books of Jacob},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125631/PDF-MASTER/2022-03-RL-06.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/rl.2022.140978},
 keywords={Polish contemporary literature, fiction as conjectural history, neo-historical novel, Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962)},
}