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Dette avsnittet klippet jeg ut i fra anmeldelsen av romanen i bostonreview.net:

Tokarczuk’s narrator spends most of her time on airplanes, from which (and from the global escapism they connote) derives the English title. The characters whose stories she tells—or which simply interrupt her voice without warning—take many other modes of transport as well, some contemporary, some antiquated: trains, buses, carriages, carts, river barges. The Polish title of the novel, Bieguni, refers to the oldest kind of travel, the one done on foot. It is the name of a radical mystical sect from eighteenth-century Russia whose proponents believed that sin had to be escaped not only mentally, but also physically through constant itinerancy, literally walking or running from one place to another. In Polish, the word bieguni evokes the verb biegać, to run, but also biegun, the geographical pole. The term thus captures both the near-abstract vastness of Flights and its paradoxical materialism, the way in which—despite and within its globetrotting—it remains tied to very particular objects and places, as committed to traveling in search of novelty as it is to digging into one’s imperfectly known origins.

Takk skal du ha, Gretemor - litt mer "kjøtt på beinet" der. Ikke den samme artikkelen som jeg refererte til, men et nytt spor likevel: Hensikten med reisen er både rotløshet og rotfeste?

Jeg har ikke lest denne boken av forfatteren, Marit, så jeg vet ikke. Siden forfatteren er utdannet psykolog tenkte jeg at det kunne ha med forskjellige fluktmetoder/mekanismer å gjøre., Et sted leste jeg at den polske tittelen kunne oversettes med "runaways". Jeg har lest litt i tråden og noen anmeldelser, men forstår ikke helt hva forfatteren mener og vil.