Reading the Environment

Introduction

- Ways of Reading (in) the Environment

- From the Cold War to the Global Warming. Olga Tokarczuk's Timeline

- (Eco)critics on Tokarczuk

Chapter 1

"The World's slimy umbilical cords."

The Way of Interconnectedness in Primeval and Other Times

- Primeval and Other Times

- Interconnectedness

- Of Mushrooms, Plants, and Hybrids

- Mourning for the Holocene

Chapter 2

"The Smell of Mushrooms and Wet Hey."

The Way of Naturecultures in House of Day, House of Night

- House of Day, House of Night

- Naturecultures

- The Ground the House is Built on

- Bathed in the Orange Light

Chapter 3

"How great and full of life the world is"

The Way of Sympoiesis in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

- Sympoiesis

- Auguries of Innocence

- The First Fall of Man from Unity

- Calls to Heaven for Human Blood

Chapter 4

"But this is the island of Bikini": The Way of Earth Island in Flights

- Flights

- Earth Island

- The Planet of Islands

- Flyover Islands

- Archipelagos of Order, Oceans of Chaos

Chapter 5

"Human stupidity is responsible for introducing sadness into the world": The Way of the Beginning of Anthropocene in The Books of Jacob

- The Books of Jacob

- The Beginning of the Anthropocene

- On the Side of Darkness

- Framing the Anthropocene

Conclusion

- The Three Answers

- The Further Uses of the Reading (in) the environment Model

- "There is something wrong with the world"