After the Human? The Visit by Olga Tokarczuk as an Anthropocenic Narration Cover Image

Po człowieku? Wizyta Olgi Tokarczuk jako narracja antropoceniczna
After the Human? The Visit by Olga Tokarczuk as an Anthropocenic Narration

Author(s): Iwona Gralewicz‑Wolny
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Olga Tokarczuk; Wizyta; klon; człowiek; antropocen;

Summary/Abstract: The article offers an interpretation of Olga Tokarczuk’s story, The Visit, in which the writer portrays the epoch of man in the costume of a futuristic clone community. The Anthropocene, shown by the Nobel Prize winner in a distorted mirror, appears as a mixture of discourses based on language, image, and body, confronted with the egocentric, introverted personality profile of the protagonists of the work. In the context of post‑humanist thought (R. Braidotti, D. Haraway, T. Morton), this complexity becomes, paradoxically, a condition for the survival of humanity.

  • Issue Year: 11/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 313-325
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish