Author : Kim Adrian
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780999431658
Portions of this book originally appeared as "Ten conversations about My struggle," The Gettysburg Review v.32: no.2 (Spring 2019).
Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300240554
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard “Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives. Knausgaard writes to “erode [his] own notions about the world. . . . It is one thing to know something, another to write about it.” The key to enhanced living is the ability to hit upon something inadvertently, to regard it from a position of defenselessness and unknowing. A deeply personal meditation, Inadvertent is a cogent and accessible guide to the creative process of one of our most prolific and ingenious artists.
Author : ADRIAN
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2022-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781913861384
Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448190800
From the international phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, the extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian). * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now * In this final novel in the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project. The End reflects on the fallout from the earlier books, with Knausgaard facing the pressures of literary acclaim and its often shattering repercussions. It is at once a meditation on writing and its relationship with reality, and an account of a writer's relationship with himself - from his ambitions to his doubts and frailties. 'Epic... It creates a world that absorbs you utterly' Sunday Times 'Compulsively addictive' Daily Telegraph 'My Struggle has strong claim to be the great literary event of the twenty-first century' Guardian 'A mesmerising, thought-provoking and genuinely important work of art' Spectator
Author : John Crace
Publisher : RDR Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571431592
Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions of Big Ideas, as he turns publishers' golden dream books into dross.
Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374534160
The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.
Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374534179
My Struggle: Book 4 finds an eighteen-year-old Karl Ove Knausgaard in a tiny fishing village in northern Norway, where he has been hired as a schoolteacher and is living on his own for the first time. When the ferocious winter takes hold, Karl Ove--in the company of the H fjord locals, a warm and earthy group who have spent their lives working, drinking, and joking together in close quarters--confronts private demons, reels from humiliations, and is elated by small victories. We are immersed, along with Karl Ove, in this world--sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes serenely beautiful--where memories and physical obsessions burn throughout the endless Arctic winter. In Book 4, Karl Ove must weigh the realities of his new life as a writer against everything he had believed it would be.
Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374534144
The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf"Nbut has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.
Author : Kim Adrian
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1496206274
Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad. Like their zoological namesake, these essays do not simply wear their borrowed "shells" but inhabit them so perfectly that the borrowed structures are wholly integral rather than contrived, both shaping the work and illuminating and exemplifying its subject. The Shell Game contains a carefully chosen selection of beautifully written, thought-provoking hybrid essays tackling a broad range of subjects, including the secrets of the human genome, the intractable pain of growing up black in America, and the gorgeous glow residing at the edges of the autism spectrum. Surprising, delightful, and lyric, these essays are destined to become classics of this new and increasingly popular hybrid form.
Author : Claus Elholm Andersen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438495676
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård’s six-volume, 3600-page autobiographical novel, My Struggle, has been widely hailed for its heroic exploration of selfhood, compulsive readability, and restless experimentation with form and genre. Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel explains why. Across four chapters, Claus Elholm Andersen shows how Knausgård confronts, challenges, and rejects the symbiotic relationship between novels and fiction, particularly via a technique of "auto-fictionalization." The fifth chapter then explores the further breakdown of this relationship in autofiction by Sheila Heti, Rachel Cusk, and Ben Lerner, taking readers to what Lerner called "the very edge of fiction."
