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Flights.

By: Tokarczuk, OlgaContributor(s): Croft, JenniferMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781910695449Subject(s): Travel in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: FlightsDDC classification: 891.8/538 LOC classification: PN56.T7.T653 2017ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Contents -- Flights -- HERE I AM -- THE WORLD IN YOUR HEAD -- YOUR HEAD IN THE WORLD -- SYNDROME -- CABINET OF CURIOSITIES -- SEEING IS KNOWING -- SEVEN YEARS OF TRIPS -- GUIDANCE FROM CIORAN -- KUNICKI: WATER (I) -- BENEDICTUS, QUI VENIT -- PANOPTICON -- KUNICKI: WATER (II) -- EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE -- AIRPORTS -- RETURNING TO ONE'S ROOTS -- TRAVEL SIZES -- MANO DI GIOVANNI BATTISTA -- THE ORIGINAL AND THE COPY -- TRAINS FOR COWARDS -- ABANDONED APARTMENT -- THE BOOK OF INFAMY -- GUIDEBOOKS -- NEW ATHENS -- WIKIPEDIA -- CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, PICK UP YOUR PENS! -- TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGY: LECTIO BREVIS I -- THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE -- INSTRUCTIONS -- ASH WEDNESDAY FEAST -- NORTH POLE EXPEDITIONS -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AN ISLAND -- PURGING THE MAP -- IN PURSUIT OF NIGHT -- SANITARY PADS -- RELICS: PEREGRINATIO AD LOCA SANCTA -- BELLY DANCE -- MERIDIANS -- UNUS MUNDUS -- HAREM (MENCHU'S TALE) -- ANOTHER OF MENCHU'S TALES -- CLEOPATRAS -- A VERY LONG QUARTER OF AN HOUR -- APULEIUS THE DONKEY -- MEDIA PRESENTERS -- ATATÜRK'S REFORMS -- KALI YUGA -- WAX MODEL COLLECTIONS -- DR BLAU'S TRAVELS (I) -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN'S FIRST LETTER TO FRANCIS I, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA -- AMONG THE MAORI -- DR BLAU'S TRAVELS (II) -- PLANE OF PROFLIGATES -- PILGRIM'S MAKE-UP -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN'S SECOND LETTER TO FRANCIS I, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA -- SARIRA -- THE BODHI TREE -- HOME IS MY HOTEL -- TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGY: LECTIO BREVIS II -- COMPATRIOTS -- TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGY: CONCLUSION -- THE TONGUE IS THE STRONGEST MUSCLE -- SPEAK! SPEAK! -- FROG AND BIRD -- LINES, PLANES AND BODIES -- THE ACHILLES TENDON -- THE HISTORY OF FILIP VERHEYEN, WRITTEN BY HIS STUDENT AND CONFIDANT, WILLEM VAN HORSSEN -- LETTERS TO THE AMPUTATED LEG -- TRAVEL TALES -- THREE HUNDRED KILOMETRES -- 30,000 GUILDERS -- THE TSAR'S COLLECTION -- IRKUTSK-MOSCOW -- DARK MATTER.
MOBILITY IS REALITY -- МОБИЛЬНОСТЬ СТАНОВИТСЯ РЕАЛЬНОСTЮ. -- FLIGHTS -- WHAT THE SHROUDED RUNAWAY WAS SAYING -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN'S THIRD LETTER TO FRANCIS I -- THINGS NOT MADE BY HUMAN HANDS -- PURITY OF BLOOD -- KUNSTKAMMER -- MANO DI CONSTANTINO -- MAPPING THE VOID -- ANOTHER COOK -- WHALES, OR: DROWNING IN AIR -- GODZONE -- FEAR NOT -- DAY OF THE DEAD -- RUTH -- RECEPTION AT LARGE FANCY HOTELS -- POINT -- CROSS SECTION AS LEARNING METHOD -- CHOPIN'S HEART -- DRY SPECIMENS -- NETWORK STATE -- SWASTIKAS -- VENDORS OF NAMES -- DRAMA AND ACTION -- EVIDENCE -- NINE -- ATTEMPTS AT TRAVEL STEREOMETRY -- EVEN -- ŚWIEBODZIN -- KUNICKI: EARTH -- ISLAND SYMMETRIES -- AIR-SICKNESS BAGS -- THE EARTH'S NIPPLES -- POGO -- WALL -- AMPHITHEATRE IN SLEEP -- MAP OF GREECE -- KAIROS -- I'M HERE -- ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES -- FINAL TIMETABLE -- THE POLYMER PRESERVATION PROCESS, STEP BY STEP: -- BOARDING -- Itinerarium -- Index of Maps and Drawings -- Translator's acknowledgements -- Current and forthcoming books by Fitzcarraldo Editions -- About the Authors -- Copyright.
Summary: From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.
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Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Contents -- Flights -- HERE I AM -- THE WORLD IN YOUR HEAD -- YOUR HEAD IN THE WORLD -- SYNDROME -- CABINET OF CURIOSITIES -- SEEING IS KNOWING -- SEVEN YEARS OF TRIPS -- GUIDANCE FROM CIORAN -- KUNICKI: WATER (I) -- BENEDICTUS, QUI VENIT -- PANOPTICON -- KUNICKI: WATER (II) -- EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE -- AIRPORTS -- RETURNING TO ONE'S ROOTS -- TRAVEL SIZES -- MANO DI GIOVANNI BATTISTA -- THE ORIGINAL AND THE COPY -- TRAINS FOR COWARDS -- ABANDONED APARTMENT -- THE BOOK OF INFAMY -- GUIDEBOOKS -- NEW ATHENS -- WIKIPEDIA -- CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, PICK UP YOUR PENS! -- TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGY: LECTIO BREVIS I -- THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE -- INSTRUCTIONS -- ASH WEDNESDAY FEAST -- NORTH POLE EXPEDITIONS -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AN ISLAND -- PURGING THE MAP -- IN PURSUIT OF NIGHT -- SANITARY PADS -- RELICS: PEREGRINATIO AD LOCA SANCTA -- BELLY DANCE -- MERIDIANS -- UNUS MUNDUS -- HAREM (MENCHU'S TALE) -- ANOTHER OF MENCHU'S TALES -- CLEOPATRAS -- A VERY LONG QUARTER OF AN HOUR -- APULEIUS THE DONKEY -- MEDIA PRESENTERS -- ATATÜRK'S REFORMS -- KALI YUGA -- WAX MODEL COLLECTIONS -- DR BLAU'S TRAVELS (I) -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN'S FIRST LETTER TO FRANCIS I, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA -- AMONG THE MAORI -- DR BLAU'S TRAVELS (II) -- PLANE OF PROFLIGATES -- PILGRIM'S MAKE-UP -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN'S SECOND LETTER TO FRANCIS I, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA -- SARIRA -- THE BODHI TREE -- HOME IS MY HOTEL -- TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGY: LECTIO BREVIS II -- COMPATRIOTS -- TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGY: CONCLUSION -- THE TONGUE IS THE STRONGEST MUSCLE -- SPEAK! SPEAK! -- FROG AND BIRD -- LINES, PLANES AND BODIES -- THE ACHILLES TENDON -- THE HISTORY OF FILIP VERHEYEN, WRITTEN BY HIS STUDENT AND CONFIDANT, WILLEM VAN HORSSEN -- LETTERS TO THE AMPUTATED LEG -- TRAVEL TALES -- THREE HUNDRED KILOMETRES -- 30,000 GUILDERS -- THE TSAR'S COLLECTION -- IRKUTSK-MOSCOW -- DARK MATTER.

MOBILITY IS REALITY -- МОБИЛЬНОСТЬ СТАНОВИТСЯ РЕАЛЬНОСTЮ. -- FLIGHTS -- WHAT THE SHROUDED RUNAWAY WAS SAYING -- JOSEFINE SOLIMAN'S THIRD LETTER TO FRANCIS I -- THINGS NOT MADE BY HUMAN HANDS -- PURITY OF BLOOD -- KUNSTKAMMER -- MANO DI CONSTANTINO -- MAPPING THE VOID -- ANOTHER COOK -- WHALES, OR: DROWNING IN AIR -- GODZONE -- FEAR NOT -- DAY OF THE DEAD -- RUTH -- RECEPTION AT LARGE FANCY HOTELS -- POINT -- CROSS SECTION AS LEARNING METHOD -- CHOPIN'S HEART -- DRY SPECIMENS -- NETWORK STATE -- SWASTIKAS -- VENDORS OF NAMES -- DRAMA AND ACTION -- EVIDENCE -- NINE -- ATTEMPTS AT TRAVEL STEREOMETRY -- EVEN -- ŚWIEBODZIN -- KUNICKI: EARTH -- ISLAND SYMMETRIES -- AIR-SICKNESS BAGS -- THE EARTH'S NIPPLES -- POGO -- WALL -- AMPHITHEATRE IN SLEEP -- MAP OF GREECE -- KAIROS -- I'M HERE -- ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES -- FINAL TIMETABLE -- THE POLYMER PRESERVATION PROCESS, STEP BY STEP: -- BOARDING -- Itinerarium -- Index of Maps and Drawings -- Translator's acknowledgements -- Current and forthcoming books by Fitzcarraldo Editions -- About the Authors -- Copyright.

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.

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