Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Cinema Stephen Heath

Stephen Heath

is harbouring secret dreams of his own

“I want to express my pilgrim’s progress between rocks and paper places

and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion

this transformation has only just begun

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Cinema Stephen HeathFlights, a novel about travel in the twenty first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuks most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have