RaveLondon Review of Books (UK)\"The Books of Jacob takes its place alongside the great postmodern meganovels ... This is the very quintessence of transgression, the promotion of a Bataille-type mysticism to the very centre of social life, the injunction to destroy order itself, absolutely ... Poststructuralists and adherents of Bataille will revel in Jacob’s ‘strange deeds’ and celebrate him as an early exemplar of transgression; some readers will be troubled by this ‘populism’, while others will conclude, with Moliwda, that Jacob is inscrutable ... What is important here is that Olga Tokarczuk has learned to do the impossible: to write the novel of the collective.
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