![]() ![]() ![]() Articulating universal dilemmas, this Proustian masterpiece opens a window into one of the most original minds writing today. Knausgaard probes into his past, dissecting struggles-great and small-with great candor and vitality. Knausgaard breaks his own life story down to its elementary particles, often recreating memories in real time, blending recollections of images and conversation with profound questions in a remarkable way. He is now embarking on his third novel while haunted by self-doubt. ![]() Knausgaard's father drank himself to death. The changes of these first hours happen so slowly and are performed with such an inevitability that there is almost a touch of ritual about them, as if life capitulates according to set rules, a kind of gentleman's agreement.Īlmost ten years have passed since Karl O. ![]() Sooner or later, one day or another, this thumping motion shuts down of its own accord. Knausgaard breaks his own life story down to its. Ive heard Zadie Smith say the same about Karl Ove Knausgaards My Struggle: its just the stuff of prosaic, everyday life and yet she refers to his. To the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Knausgaards father drank himself to death. Winner of the 2009 Brage Prize, the 2010 Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet, the 2010 P2 Listeners' Prize, and the 2004 Norwegian Critics' Prize and nominated for the 2010 Nordic Council Literary Prize. ![]()
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