"Animals Taking Revenge" Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter in Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

This chapter examines Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead , revealing how the text works both within and against the conventions of the detective genre, reimagining environmental harm as an ecological encounter in which non-human animals are positioned as both victims and perpetrators of murder. The revenge killings committed by protagonist Janina thus unsettle the distinction between criminal/victim/detective, as well as between the human and the non-human. In the process, Tokarczuk dramatises the difficulties of assessing, and responding to, ecological crime.