We start in 1914, when the Tsar’s men come and take Michal Niebieski away to fight in the war. The book is divided into chapters called times, each time focussing on one of the characters. For example, they are protected by angels, they have close, very close, relationships with animals and witness strange phenomena. But this is not your standard family saga for the people of Primitive live on two levels, a real one and mythological one. In one sense, it can be described as family saga, in that we follow one family, the Niebieski family and their relatives, over this period, though there is a whole host of other characters. The story takes place from 1914 up to around 1980. It lies on three rivers: The Black and the White and a third, formed by the confluence of he other two, called simply The River. It is guarded, on its four borders by four archangels. It does not, of course, exist in the real world. I have also been close to where it is located. It is around fifty miles from where Tokarczuk now lives. We even know where it is, as Tokarczuk describes where it is in relation to actual villages. Primeval is a quasi-mythical village in Poland. Primeval is the place at the centre of the universe we are told at the beginning of the book. Home » Poland » Olga Tokarczuk » Prawiek i inne czasy (Primeval and Other Times) Olga Tokarczuk: Prawiek i inne czasy (Primeval and Other Times)
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