The Does in the “Eco-Terrorist” Revenge : Some remarks on the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk and the film Spoor by Agnieszka Holland

Simić, Zorana (2025) The Does in the “Eco-Terrorist” Revenge : Some remarks on the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk and the film Spoor by Agnieszka Holland. In: Film i književnost 2.0 : zbornik radova. Beograd : Institut za književnost i umetnost, pp. 371-385. ISBN 978-86-7095-368-0

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Abstract

In the paper, the novel „Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk (originally published in 2009, translated by Milica Markić and published in Serbia in 2014) and the film „Spoor” („Pokot”, 2017) by the author’s compatriot and contemporary, the director Agnieszka Holland, based on their co-authored screenplay, are briefly (and) comparatively discussed. Turning to the harsh accusations of a kind of eco-terrorism in the Polish media, the paper broaches the following questions: In what ways and to what extent did the transposition of the literary into the text of the film screenplay condition and (re)shape the semantic, genre, and stylistic comprehensiveness, layering, and openness of each one individually? Did the film’s transmediality redefine the novel’s complex intertextuality? How did the simultaneous “global” promotion of Olga Tokarczuk’s literary oeuvre and the film she co-wrote, along with different models of cultural translation, influence the forms of their (de)coding, as well as the media representation and reception of (eco)feminism in the contemporary media and cultural context? Why, in the end, was there resistance to the double fictional possibility of certain joint revenge of the does and other endangered creatures, their femininity, and archetypality?

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