The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk and he has influenced generations

and he has influenced generations of poets around the world

But it is also a sociologist's view of what it means to grow up working class and then leave that class

silent tears rolling down his cheeks

By turns sly and sweet

Translator: Robert Chandler

The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk and he has influenced generationsIn September 1913, a young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone or