Metamorficzność postaci w twórczości Olgi Tokarczuk

The article discusses the functions of metamorphous characters in Olga Tokarczuk’s works. Drawing on the post-humanist criticism, the author of the article demonstrates how the Noble Prize winner uses the ambiguous ontic existence of hybrid characters in order to interrogate the well-established boundaries of species identity. The proposed reading of the metamorphous nature of Tokarczuk’s characters follows the writer’s own assertion that each being constitutes an indispensable part of the world’s entity.