Introduction
- Ways of Reading (in) the Environment
- From the Cold War to the Global Warming. Olga Tokarczuk’s Timeline
- (Eco)critics on Tokarczuk
Chapter 1
“The World’s slimy umbilical cords.”
The Way of Interconnectedness in Primeval and Other Times
- Primeval and Other Times
- Interconnectedness
- Of Mushrooms, Plants, and Hybrids
- Mourning for the Holocene
Chapter 2
“The Smell of Mushrooms and Wet Hey.”
The Way of Naturecultures in House of Day, House of Night
- House of Day, House of Night
- Naturecultures
- The Ground the House is Built on
- Bathed in the Orange Light
Chapter 3
“How great and full of life the world is”
The Way of Sympoiesis in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Sympoiesis
- Auguries of Innocence
- The First Fall of Man from Unity
- Calls to Heaven for Human Blood
Chapter 4
“But this is the island of Bikini”: The Way of Earth Island in Flights
- Flights
- Earth Island
- The Planet of Islands
- Flyover Islands
- Archipelagos of Order, Oceans of Chaos
Chapter 5
“Human stupidity is responsible for introducing sadness into the world”: The Way of the Beginning of Anthropocene in The Books of Jacob
- The Books of Jacob
- The Beginning of the Anthropocene
- On the Side of Darkness
- Framing the Anthropocene
Conclusion
- The Three Answers
- The Further Uses of the Reading (in) the environment Model
- “There is something wrong with the world”
Biography
Dominika Oramus is a full professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, Poland.
