Tag

My Struggle

All articles tagged with #my struggle

arts-and-culture6 days ago•9 min saved

A Reader’s Roadmap to Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Epic Autofiction

Adam Dalva outlines a reader-friendly route through Karl Ove Knausgaard’s sprawling body of work, highlighting his distinctive autofictional style and offering starter points (My Struggle: Book 1; The Morning Star; My Struggle: Book 2; Autumn; Spring) as well as suggestions for navigating the later volumes and related nonfiction, noting translation speed and reception.

via The New York Times|

#arts-and-culture #autofiction #autumn

culture8 days ago•1 min saved

The Karl Ove Effect: Why Fans Turn a Norwegian Writer Into a Cult Figure

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard commands a devout, mostly male following who prize his unflinching honesty in My Struggle; celebrities like Jeremy Strong publicly idolize him. As Archipelago Books translates his work and his new novel The School of Night debuts, the Morning Star cycle continues with a horror-tinged Doctor Faustus retelling set in 1980s London.

via Air Mail|

#culture #jeremy-strong #karl-ova-knausgaard