Karl Ove Knausgård

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Don Bartlett

A Norwegian Marcel Proust. This nerve-striking, addictive piece of "hyper-realism" has created a phenomenon throughout Scandinavia.

My Struggle

An international phenomenon, which has been declared a masterpiece everywhere it has been published. A searingly honest, addictive and controversial read. In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. In A Death in the Family Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. A profoundly serious, gripping and hugely readable work written as if the author's very life were at stake.

A Death in the Family

"A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, for whom Munch's legacy looms large. Bringing together art history, biography, and memoir, Knausgaard tells a passionate, freewheeling, and pensive story about not just one of history's most significant painters, but the very meaning of choosing the artist's life, as he himself has done. Including reproductions of some of Munch's most emotionally and psychologically intense works, chosen by Knausgaard, this utterly original and ardent work of criticism will delight and educate both experts and novices of literature and the visual arts alike"--

The Art of Edvard Munch

So Much Longing in So Little Space

An accessible and personal "confession" of the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard

Inadvertent

Med sitt rika persongalleri och en handling som spänner över vardagligheter och stora kosmiska sammanhang är Morgonstjärnan ett storverk av en av Europas riktigt stora berättare. Det är sent i augusti, sommarledighetens sista skälvande dagar. Litteraturprofessor Arne och konstnären Tove befinner sig på Sørlandet tillsammans med sina barn. Vännen Egil bor i ett hus alldeles i närheten, prästen Kathrine är på väg hem från ett seminarium, fritidsledaren Emil repar med sitt band, journalisten Jostein är ute på stan och hans flickvän Turid jobbar natt på sjukhuset. Över var och en av dem dyker det plötsligt upp en jättelik stjärna på himlavalvet. Inte ens astronomerna har ord för att förklara vad det är som sker. Är det ett stjärnfall? Men varför har då ingen sett stjärnan tidigare? Har den precis uppstått ur intet? Med tiden lägger sig nyhetsvärdet och livet återgår till så som det var innan stjärnan syntes. Ändå är något förändrat i grunden. Allt märkligare saker tycks ske som påverkar människornas tillvaro på ett oanat sätt. Morgonstjärnan är en roman om det vi inte förstår, det vi inte vet att namnge och aldrig tidigare har mött. Den handlar om det stora dramat sett genom livets begränsade lins. Men mer än något annat är det en roman om vad som sker när de mörka krafterna i världen får löpa amok.

Morgonstjärnan

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 Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot’s shame in Sodom; Noah’s isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the seventeenth century. Alighting upon these dramatic scenes – from the Bible and beyond – Knausgaard’s imagination takes flight: the result is a dazzling display of storytelling at its majestic, spellbinding best. Incorporating and challenging tradition, legend, and the Apocrypha, these penetrating glimpses hazard chilling questions: can the nature of the divine undergo change, and can the immortal perish?

A Time for Everything

No primeiro volume da prestigiosa série que lhe rendeu fama mundial, Karl Ove Knausgård investiga sua própria juventude. Uma noite de ano-novo e rebeldia, regada a cervejas vedadas aos menores, um amasso nauseante na primeira namorada, um show fracassado com a banda de punk no shopping center - em A morte do pai, primeiro romance da série autobiográfica Minha Luta, Karl Ove Knausgård se concentra em narrar os anos de sua juventude. Ao embarcar numa investigação proustiana e incansável do próprio passado, o narrador busca reconstruir, sobretudo, a trajetória do pai, figura distante e insondável que entra em declínio e leva o núcleo familiar à ruína. Honesto e sensível, Knausgård investiga também o próprio presente: aos 39 anos, pai de três filhos, ele deve se ajustar à rotina em família, trocar fraldas e apartar brigas, tudo isso enquanto tenta escrever seu novo romance, numa luta diária. Com A morte do pai, Knausgård inaugura um projeto monumental e ambicioso, que logo se tornou best-seller na Noruega e fenômeno literário internacional. São seis volumes híbridos entre a ficção e a memória, em que o autor explora, com pleno domínio da atividade narrativa, as possibilidades da ficção contemporânea.

A morte do pai

Das eigene Leben offen, schonungslos und radikal zum Gegenstand des Schreibens zu machen - dies ist das Konzept, zu dem sich Karl Ove Knausgård in einem furiosen Mammutprojekt entschlossen hat. Radikal ehrlich und mit unglaublicher sprachlicher Kraft nähert er sich in "Sterben", dem ersten Roman einer sechsbändigen Serie, seinem schwierigen Verhältnis zum Vater, das ihn grundlegend geprägt hat. Als dieser stirbt und er sich mit seinem Bruder daran macht, den Nachlass zu ordnen, bietet sich beiden ein Bild des Grauens. Während sie das Haus reinigen und die Beerdigung vorbereiten, kommen Erinnerungen hoch. Nach und nach entsteht so das Porträt eines Mannes, über den sich in der Kindheit das Gleichgewicht der Familie definierte und den die beiden Söhne unsäglich zu hassen lernten.-

Sterben

The sixth and final book in Knausgaard's epic My Struggle cycle--the most talked about literary project of its time. The sprawling, intimate, and spectacularly unorthodox literary autobiography that unleashed a media frenzy upon its release in Norway, became a global publishing sensation, and sold millions of copies worldwide, now reaches its climactic conclusion. In My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines with ruthless, unsparing rigour his life, his ambitions and frailties, his uncertainties and doubts, and his relationships with friends and exes, his wife and children, his mother and father. It is an opus in which life is described in all its nuances from moments of great drama to the most trivial everyday details. It is also a project that is full of risk, where the borders between private and public worlds cross, not without cost for the author himself and the people portrayed. The End, the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the earlier volumes, with Knausgaard facing growing literary acclaim and the often shattering repercussions that came with it. It is a book about literature itself and its relationship with reality, the capstone on a magnificent achievement. Translated from the Norwegian by superstar literary translators Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken.

My Struggle: Book 6

The End

De morgenster

Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.

Mi lucha 1. La muerte del padre

Spring is a deeply moving, lyrical, and inspiring memoir about family, our everyday lives, our joys and struggles, set over the course of a single day. Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for. In Spring, third volume of the Seasons quartet, we follow Karl Ove and his three-month-old daughter, Anna, over the course of one day in April, from sunrise to sunset: a day filled with routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness. In Spring, one of the world's most beguiling literary artists celebrates the greatness of the everyday--the beautiful and the painful--and the big things that hide behind the smallest events in all our lives. Whereas the first two books in Knausgaard's sublime Seasons series are comprised of short texts--sightings of things and places, associations and reflections related to nature and the material world--Spring is a narrative memoir that reads like a short novel. Emotionally captivating, it is the most accessible of all his books for new Karl Ove readers keen to enter into his writing, while also deeply moving for his devoted readers. This beautiful edition is illustrated by the acclaimed Swedish artist Anna Bjerger.

Spring

Litteraturprofessoren Arne og kunstneren Tove er sammen med sine barn på feriestedet på Sørlandet. Deres venn, rikmannssønnen Egil, befinner seg på en hytte i nær-heten. Presten Kathrine er på vei hjem fra et seminar, barnehageassistenten Emil er på øving med bandet sitt, journalisten Jostein er ute på byen, kona hans Turid som er hjelpepleier har nattevakt. Over dem og alle andre dukker det plutselig opp en enorm stjerne på himmelen

roman

Morgenstjernen

Sonbahar

Karl Ove leaves Norway and his wife and travels to Stockholm. The book describes the sensation of falling in love again and the long, dramatic period before he and Linda form a stable relationship. Later: the pleasures and pains of paternity, family life, and the need to write, the urgency of creation.

Un hombre enamorado / A Man in Love

In Winter, het tweede deel van de Vier seizoenen-reeks, wordt Knausgårds dochter Anne geboren. Meer nog dan in het eerste deel richt hij zich direct tot deze pasgeboren dochter in ontroerende brieven. Ook legt hij haar de wereld verder uit in korte, vaak geestige tekstjes over de meest uiteenlopende onderwerpen. Of het nu gaat om suiker, tandenborstels, de maan, de jaren zeventig, of het belang van seks en gesprekken voor menselijke relaties, Knausgårds unieke blik laat ook de lezer naar deze onderwerpen kijken met een blik als van een pasgeboren kind.

Karl Ove Knausgård

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