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Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bob Blaisdell (Editor)Series:Literary ConversationsPublish date:2023-11-27Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496847706ISBN-10:1496847709UPC:9781496847706Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, European, ModernBook Topic:Scandinavian, 21st CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SC89V0S238
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, when his debut novel won the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. His fame continued to grow with the publication of his six-volume autobiographical series Min Kamp, or My Struggle. Translated into English in 2012, the critically acclaimed and controversial series garnered global attention, as did its author. Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard is a collection of twenty-two interviews, each conducted during the ten-year span in which Knausgaard's literary prowess gained worldwide recognition.

Knausgaard is both a daring writer and a daring interviewee. He grounds his observations in the ordinary aspects of the world around him, which, he insists, is the same world in front of most of his readers. He regards his appearances in newspapers, magazines, and literary festivals as "a performance," where he plays himself. While that role may differ from his inner life, it is consistent with the role he plays in his autobiographical novels. Fans of Knausgaard will easily recognize this public persona, an embodiment of the protagonist, husband, and father featured in My Struggle and in the Seasons quartet.

Knausgaard discusses his work, aspects of his personal life, and his writing routines and practices in marvelous detail. He comments on literary and artistic world classics and on international contemporary authors. A bilingual speaker, he is accustomed to appearing before the press and in front of audiences in his roles as a famous author and as the publisher and cofounder of the publishing house Pelikanen (Pelican). Remarkable for his candor and directness, Knausgaard delivers the same variety and number of surprises in these interviews as he does in his most thrilling books.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496847706ISBN-10:1496847709UPC:9781496847706Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, European, ModernBook Topic:Scandinavian, 21st CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SC89V0S238
Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. He is author of Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine; Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius; and Well, Mr. Mudrick Said . . . A Memoir. In addition, he is editor of more than three dozen literary anthologies.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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