Study On Mythological Narratives In Olga Tokarczuk’s Works

Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk,who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 18 years(awarded in 19),integrates mythology,religion,psychology,philosophy,biology,physics and other huge disciplines in her works,aiming to build a new and extremely vibrant literary universe.The ordinariness of the embarrassment surged in her pen with the magical absurdity,and she cried out in gentle language: "The world is dying"(1).In fact,This is a hidden worry from the depths of her heart.In the face of the rapid development of scientific and technological civilization today,Tokarczuk shouted to the soulless modern people,intending to awaken the spirituality they are being eaten away with,so that they can re-understand and tell about the vast world.Tokarczuk incorporated myth into her bones and blood,allowing divinity to reflow in her literary astrology,in order to construct her subjective cognition of the world such as women,species,irrationality,and so on.Starting from mythological archetypal criticism and narratology,This paper will analyze and study the narrative and characteristics of Tokarczuk’s works that focuses on her six works: House of Day,House of Night,Primeval and Other Times,Flights,Bizarre Stories,Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Anna In in the Tombs of the World.,and study the subjective consciousness of the writer contained in Tokarczuk’s works.The first part of the paper introduces Tokarczuk and her works in a linear manner,so as to understand and grasp Tokarczuk’s personal,creative background and works as a whole,so as to facilitate the study of her works narrative.The second part will study the narrative characteristics of Tokarczuk’s works from the perspective of narratology,and combine textual analysis and discuss the narrative characteristics of mythological narratives,fragmented narratives,mirror expressions,restatements and reconstructions embodied in her novels.In Tokarczuk’s works,traditional myths and legends were not the main body of her textual creation,but only one of the ways in which she retells the world,Tokarczuk wants to retell the world in a mythical way.Moreover,Tokarczuk was not completely imprisoned in the divine,fictional,and detached text world,nor did he completely separate fiction from non-fiction,science from the unknown,existence from nothingness,and fantasy from reality.But under the influence of multicultural social life background and diversified integration of world culture,Tokarczuk has a multi-dimensional thinking consciousness.This multi-dimensional sense of thinking has to some extent contributed to her fragmented,non-linear narrative mode.The third part combines the discussion content of the first chapter and the second chapter,discusses and analyzes the subjective consciousness of Tokarczuk contained in the text,so as to deeply explore the substantive connotation and creative value of Tokarczuk’s work narrative.