Tokarczuk the books of jacob6/28/2023 ![]() In Tokarczuk’s account (and Jennifer Croft’s elegant English translation from the Polish), Jacob is at once a charismatic con man and a living embodiment of the contradictions implicit within historical narrative. Who is Jacob Frank? Born Yankiele Leybowicz, the central character of Olga Tokarczuk’s panoramic The Books of Jacobis based on a real-life historical figure, a Jewish man in eighteenth-century Poland who proclaimed himself to be the Messiah and founded the heretical Frankist sect, which mixed Kabbalist mysticism with a belief in the Trinity. Le Petit Dé Frederic TutenĪ Playwright in Paris Brings the Revolution Onstage by Chris Knapp Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacobby Rhian Sasseen ![]() Payal Kapadia's A Night of Knowing Nothingby Arun A.K.Ĭandice Hoyes's Blue Lagoon Womanby Jasmine Dreame Wagner Nicole Rudick's What Is Now Known Was Only Once Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalleby Bruce LaBruce ![]()
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