Drive your plow over5/21/2023 ![]() The village’s hunting culture is the main target of her ire, and in both the novel and the film Duszejko frequently makes a spectacle of herself as she attempts to delimit or forbid its activities, charging through her small village like an Elizabeth Costello with even less credit, arguing with policemen, hunters and priests, and ruining the school play. If the line between the two countries is unreliable, Duszejko’s divisions are absolute, her world neatly organised into good and evil. ![]() She lives at a cultivated distance from an unnamed village in the Kłodzko Valley, a forested, mountainous region that borders the Czech Republic. 1 In both Drive Your Plow and its film adaptation, Agnieszka Holland’s Pokot ( Spoor, 2017), which was co-written with Tokarczuk, Duszejko – who prefers to be called by her last name – is a committed vegetarian and animal activist. ![]() For Janina Duszejko, the Polish protagonist of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead ( Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych), the Czech Republic, which is just over the shifting, imprecisely delineated border, is a strange utopia. ![]()
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