Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is so good, it makes you mad. And of course, the narrator, an “eccentric recluse” in a remote Polish village, has the perfect take on the current prevailing force in US right-wing politics:
“…cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can’t experience pleasure for himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others. Cold irony is … the armaments of impotence.” (pg. 89)
By Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Read it before it is banned, MFers!
