Abstract
This chapter offers a comparative discussion of selected works by Olga Tokarczuk and her artistic collaborator, Joanna Concejo, a France-based Polish illustrator and author of picturebooks. The subject of reflection is Tokarczuk’s interest in the visual arts, read against the “iconic turn” in contemporary culture and exemplified by her earlier collaboration with visual artists. The comparative analysis underlines the fact that the works of Tokarczuk and Concejo fit into the genre conventions of psychological realism, fairy tales and fantasy; attention is paid to their mutual inspirations and the process of co-creating the picturebook Lost Soul (2017). Finally, the chapter addresses both artists’ metaphorical forms of depicting the inexpressible: dreams, visions, memories, emotions, transience and death.
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