ABSTRACT
The chapter will explore resistances to narrative conventions as well as transformations in the novel form carried out in Olga Tokarczuk's writing through an examination of her novel Flights (2017). By undertaking such an examination, the essay argues that Tokarczuk's writing stretches narrative frontiers and renders them fluid and thus, more amenable to negotiating with the dynamic nature of world-making in globalized scenarios. Further, it suggests that her work may be argued to reflect an evolution of the novel form from its focalized, imperial, male narrator/narration, to modes of narration that insist on the ethical representations of the other(s). The chapter closely reads Tokarczuk's novel to ponder upon implications of a globalized world on local realities as well as the resistance that local intermingling may put on notions of global verisimilitude.
