Un uomo innamorato

Oh, Karl Ove, you capture the heart-break of the lovesick, hypersensitive teenager that speaks to our own lost teenage years. And thanks for Book 2, writing of your life during your 20s and 30s, married, raising children, dealing with the whole urban banana. A reader might think very self-centered o Leggi tutto

[from Min kamp 1] It was now more than two weeks since I had published my review of Min kamp 1 , and during that time I had not posted anything new. Every day, I stared at the screen, tried to begin, abandoned my unsuccessful attempt after half an hour. Maybe I would never again manage to produce a me Leggi tutto

The original Norwegian editions of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume My Struggle series, presented in thick ~500-page installments, have purportedly sold more than a half-million copies and won lots of prizes. If rumors of such critical and commercial success are true, even if only in Scandinavia, it Leggi tutto

A masterpiece - I think it surpasses vol. 1, although it is less fun and less immediately accessible. If vol. 1 was death and childhood, this is love and aging, and it is perhaps the best depiction of love that I have ever read. Family love, romantic love, courtship. Fascinating structure: A digress Leggi tutto

5* solid stars. Trying to collect my thoughts about this novel, the first thing it comes to mind is painter Anselm Kiefer: per Knausgaard “ Anselm Kiefer has always been such a name for me — more so than any other artist of our time, perhaps — because his works are so monumental, so charged with tim Leggi tutto

Karl Ove Knausgård's second instalment in the sprawling My Struggle autobiographic roman fleuve is even more gripping than its predecessor. Perhaps that is because I am also a father roughly the same age as the author, but I was truly pulled in head-first from the get-go. This book covers a period c Leggi tutto