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S4E7 | Olga Tokarczuk’s Divine Cosmos

The Paris Review

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Painting, Superstition, and the Strain of Writing

This chapter explores the local superstition surrounding a painting of a snake-haired medusa and how it relates to the speaker's process of knowing when a text is ready for editing. They also discuss the physical strain of composing a novel and share a personal experience of feeling ill after completing one.

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