5/26/2023 0 Comments Blake drive your plow![]() Because, while supported by the many practical aspects of the almost recluse life of this ageing woman, the story keeps escaping reality and realism, to the point I was utterly surprised by the ending of the book. While the book is promoted (at least in French) as an unusual type of countryside murder mystery, the rendering of the psychological complexity of the narrator and of the local community is much more powerful than the murder inquiry itself, in a picaresque spirit that reminded me very much of the best novels of Arto Paasilinna. And an ecologist fighting hunting and hunters. ![]() ![]() Although she is a retired civil engineering. In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.ĭrive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.Īctually Blake is central to the story as the main narrator is helping a former student of her to translate Blake letters and poems into Polish. I read (the French translation of) this novel, by Olga Tokarczuk, whose title comes from a poem by William Blake: ![]()
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