5/25/2023 0 Comments Blake drive your plow![]() ![]() Indeed, the title of Tokarczuk's novel is taken from one of Blake's famous proverbs of Hell in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Like Jimson she is odd and eccentric to most of humanity, though with the ability to form very deep and intimate relations with a few human beings, and, like him, William Blake is always at hand to provide an aphorism to explain the complexities of life. At least one reviewer has compared her to Miss Marple (a foolish and, for reasons that become clear with the novel's conclusion, impossible comparison), but to me here character, if not her actions, are more reminiscent of Gulley Jimson, the protagonist of Cary's The Horse's Mouth. In contrast to the fragmented, nonlinear narrative of Flights, Drive Your Plow ostensibly is a slightly more conventional - if still decidedly offbeat - book that follows Janina as she is caught up in the investigation of a series of deaths in her home town near the border with the Czech Republic. ![]()
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