Карл Уве Кнаусгорд

At eighteen years old, Karl Ove moves to a tiny fisherman's village in the far north of the Arctic circle to work as a school teacher. No interest in the job itself, his intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine. He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable loc...

In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch … This event is decisive in Bellori’s life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine. Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for E...

'It's unbelievable . I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind.' Zadie Smith 'Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' Rachel Cusk, Guardian Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike ...

Romanen apner med en svimlende beskrivelse av doden. Derfra fortelles det om forfatteren Karl Ove Knausgards kamp for a mestre livet og seg selv og sine egne ambisjoner pa skrivingens vegne, i mote med de menneskene han har rundt seg. Min kamp. Forste bok utforsker det a vokse opp og v?re overgitt en verden som ser ut til a v?re komplett, avsluttet, lukket. Romanen beskriver det unge blikkets varh...

Karl Ove Knausgaard's renowned sui generis autobiographical works, both the My Struggle and Four Seasons series, have been celebrated for their passionate and original engagement with art and their insightful critical excursions. But never before in English has Knausgaard published a true work of nonfiction. With this daring sweeping study, in characteristic style, Knausgaard combines piercing art...

Die Rucksichtslosigkeit anderen - aber vor allem sich selbst gegenuber. Die Radikalitat des Ansatzes. Die schwindelerregenden Wechsel zwischen kleinsten Details und gro?en Gedanken. Die essayistischen Passagen zu Themen der Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte. Und diesmal auch: die beruhrende Schilderung einer Krankheit und Ehekrise. In ?Kampfen?, dem fulminanten Abschluss des sechsbandigen auto...

Карл Уве Кнаусгор пишет о своей жизни с болезненной честностью. Он пишет о своем детстве и подростковых годах, об увлечении рок-музыкой, об отношениях с любящей, но практически невидимой матерью – и отстраненным, непредсказуемым отцом, а также о горе и ярости, вызванных его смертью. Когда Кнаусгор сам становится отцом, ему приходится искать баланс между заботой о своей семьей – и своими литерат...

Karl Ove Knausgaard leaves his wife and everything he knows in Oslo for a fresh start in Stockholm. There he strikes up a deep and competitive friendship with Geir and pursues Linda, a beautiful poet who captivated him years ago. A Man in Love, the second book of six in the My Struggle cycle, sees Knausgaard write of tempestuous relationships, the trials of parenthood and an urge to create grea...

Die vierzehn Jahre, die ich in Bergen lebte, sind längst vorbei. Ich führte ein Tagebuch, das habe ich verbrannt. Ich knipste ein paar Bilder, von denen besitze ich noch zwölf. Ich wusste so wenig, wollte so viel, brachte nichts zustande. Aber in welch einer Stimmung ich war, als ich dort ankam! 14 Jahre verbrachte Knausgård in Bergen, bevor er aus der norwegischen Küstenstadt regelrecht nach S...