{"id":2093,"date":"2021-01-26T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2021-01-31T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T21:39:20","slug":"the-tender-narrator-olga-tokarczuk-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2021\/01\/26\/the-tender-narrator-olga-tokarczuk-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tender Narrator &#8211; Olga Tokarczuk (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olga Tocarczuk, the 2018 Nobel prize in literature winner, delivers here her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/literature\/2018\/tokarczuk\/lecture\/\">Nobel lecture<\/a> in Polish. But sorry, I had to read it in English, my Polish is quite alarming these days. Her talk opened the windows of my house, and I felt I was sitting outside in communication and communion with Nature. Olga recalls feeling an understanding of the connectedness of all things, humans, animals, and trees, and teapots when she was a child. This stroke me sincerely, especially having a daughter who feels empathy for her food and clothes and knowing where this comes from. She explains that she lost this sense of a bond between things and aims to rediscover it through her writing, with a tenderness that she describes as being the new form of love, something even beyond empathy. A must-read\u2026several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Reading is quite a complicated psychological and perceptual process. To put it simply: first the most elusive content is conceptualized and verbalized, transforming into signs and symbols, and then it is \u201cdecoded\u201d back from language into experience. That requires a certain intellectual competence. And above all it demands attention and focus, abilities ever rarer in today\u2019s extremely distracting world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olga Tocarczuk, the 2018 Nobel prize in literature winner, delivers here her Nobel lecture in Polish. But sorry, I had to read it in English, my Polish is quite alarming these days. Her talk opened the windows of my house, and I felt I was sitting outside in communication and communion with Nature. Olga recalls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[100,79,94],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bits-bobs","category-guardians-feed-your-soul","tag-communication","tag-empathy","tag-literature"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/jerry-wang-0qmXPnZKeLU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}