Karl Ove Knausgård

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. Book Two is at heart a love story—the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of Stockholm keeping him from (and filling) his novel.

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in southern Norway. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar, the journalist Jostein is out on the town, and his wife Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is. Is there a star burning itself out? Why then has no one seen it before? Or is it a brand new star? Slowly the interest in the news subsides, and life goes on, but not quite as before, for unusual phenomena begin to occur on the fringes of human existence. Over these days in August, the characters the novel follows will each understand what is happening differently, and all face new struggles in their own lives.

Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn én forstand: Min kamp blir utgitt som seks romaner. Første, andre og tredje bok utkom høsten 2009. Fjerde, femte og sjette bok utkommer våren 2010. Etter tre år på gymnaset i Kristiansand reiser Karl Ove til Nord-Norge som lærervikar. Han møter en ny verden, og bærer med seg erfaringer han ikke selv forstår. Romanen skriver frem en ung manns ufordervete grandiositet og selvpåførte ydmykelser, oppriktigheten og umodenheten og hungeren etter eksistensiell og seksuell forløsning.

Romanen åpner med en svimlende beskrivelse av døden. Derfra fortelles det om forfatteren Karl Ove Knausgårds kamp for å mestre livet og seg selv og sine egne ambisjoner på skrivingens vegne, i møte med de menneskene han har rundt seg. Min kamp. Første bok utforsker det å vokse opp og være overgitt en verden som ser ut til å være komplett, avsluttet, lukket. Romanen beskriver det unge blikkets varhet og usikkerhet, der det registrerer andre menneskers tilstedeværelse og vurderinger med en åpenhet som er voldsom og nesten selvutslettende i sin konsekvens. I en borende prosa som oppsøker det sårbare, det pinlige og det eksistensielt betydningsbærende, blir dette en dypt personlig roman, selvutprøvende og kontroversiell. Et eksistensielt omdreiningspunkt er farens død, et annet er kanskje hovedpersonens debut som forfatter.

MIN KAMP 3 er en roman om barndom. En familie på fire, mor, far og to drenge flytter til et hus i et nybygget villakvarter på Sørlandet. Det er i starten af 1970?erne, børnene er små, forældrene er unge og fremtiden ligger åben for dem. Men på et eller andet tidspunkt begynder den at lukke sig, og tingene ændrer karakter. Hvem eller hvad er det, der ændrer sig? MIN KAMP 3 beskriver verden set med barnet Karl Oves øjne. Børn og voksne lever side om side, men mødes aldrig rigtigt. Venskaber, piger, skolens forunderlige univers og de pludselige og umotiverede stemningsskift i familien observeres og sanses i forsøget på at nå til en forståelse af verden og det, der ligger bag.

From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons. 28 August. Now, as I write this, you know nothing about anything, about what awaits you, the kind of world you will be born into. And I know nothing about you... I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the kitchen window, the sun, the water, the trees. You will come to see it in your own way, you will experience things for yourself and live a life of your own, so of course it is primarily for my own sake that I am doing this: showing you the world, little one, makes my life worth living. Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter, showing her what to expect of the world. He writes one short piece per day, describing the material and natural world with the precision and mesmerising intensity that have become his trademark. He describes with acute sensitivity daily life with his wife and children in rural Sweden, drawing upon memories of his own childhood to give an inimitably tender perspective on the precious and unique bond between parent and child. The sun, wasps, jellyfish, eyes, lice—the stuff of everyday life is the fodder for his art. Nothing is too small or too vast to escape his attention. This beautifully illustrated book is a personal encyclopaedia on everything from chewing gum to the stars. Through close observation of the objects and phenomena around him, Knausgaard shows us how vast, unknowable and wondrous the world is.

Femte bind av den selvbiografiske romanen Min kamp er skrevet med voldsom kraft og oppriktighet. Karl Ove flytter til Bergen for å gå på Skrivekunstakademiet. Det blir en gedigen skuffelse; han vil så mye, skjønner så lite, og får ingenting til. Med et tilsynelatende grunnløst pågangsmot fortsetter han likevel å skrive og lese. Flere av de han kjenner, blir antatt og debuterer som forfattere, og han begynner å tenke at han selv i beste fall kan bli en habil litteraturskribent, men ikke kunstner. Gradvis endrer skrivingen seg. Forholdet til verden rundt ham endrer seg også. Slik blir dette en roman om nye, sterke vennskap, og et alvorlig, omskakende kjærlighetsforhold, inntil romanen igjen når frem til det eksistensielle omdreiningspunktet som kanskje er den avgjørende impulsen for romanserien: faren dør, Karl Ove debuterer som forfatter og alt bryter sammen. Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn én forstand: Min kamp blir utgitt som seks romaner. Første, andre, tredje og fjerde bok er utkommet, den sjette utkommer høsten 2010.

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. 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. Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. A day filled with everyday routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness.

From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves—and the limits of what we can understand about life itself In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother, Joar, on his own, he no longer has time or space for lofty speculations. In present-day Russia, Alevtina Kotov, a biologist working at Moscow University, is traveling with her young son to the home of her stepfather, to celebrate his eightieth birthday. As a student, Alevtina was bright, curious and ambitious, asking the big questions about life and human consciousness. But as she approaches middle-age, most of that drive has gone, and she finds herself in a place she doesn’t want to be, without really understanding how she got there. Her stepfather, a musician, raised her as his own daughter, and she was never interested in learning about her biological father; when she finally starts looking into him, she learns that he died many years ago and left two sons, Joar and Syvert. Years later, when Syvert and Alevtina meet in Moscow, two very different approaches to life emerge. And as a bright star appears in the sky, it illuminates the wonder of human existence and the mysteries that exist beyond our own worldview. Set against the political and cultural backdrop of both the 1980s and the present day, The Wolves of Eternity is an expansive and affecting book about relations—to one another, to nature, to the dead.

Dette er sjette og siste bok om forfatterens liv. Den handler om realiseringen av verket, om utgivelsen av de tidligere bindene, om omstendighetene rundt, om litteraturen selv og dens forhold til virkeligheten.

"Kalp için hayat basittir: Atabildiği kadar atar. Sonra durur." Hiçbir sır bırakmayan bir dürüstlükle yazıyor Knausgaard. O yazdıkça nefesler tutuluyor, heyecandan kalp çok kereler duracak gibi oluyor. Onun yaşamına giriyor, kendi kalbinizden çok ama çok uzaklara gidiyorsunuz ama bir anda orada sadece kendi kalbinizin attığını duyuyorsunuz. Knausgaard Kavgam'da eşsiz bir ustalıkla bize yaşamlarımızı geri veriyor. 'Karl Ove'nin kayda değer yeteneği ki bu yetenek bugünlerde ender bulunuyor, tamamen anda ve kendi varlığının farkında olması. Her detay süsleme ve gösterişten uzak bir biçimde ortaya konuyor, sanki yazmak ve yaşamak eşzamanlı oluyormuş gibi. Sizi tamamen içine çekiyor. Onun hayatını onunla birlikte yaşıyorsunuz.' -Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books- Kavgam'ın ilk iki cildinde sıtma ateşine tutulmuş gibi oldum. 4 gün boyunca okumaktan başka çok az şey yaptım, e-postalarımı cevaplamadım, köpeğimi yürüyüşe çıkarmadım, bulaşıklar lavaboda yığıldı. Anlatının ışıkları sizi olduğunuz yere mıhlıyor, tıpkı otobanın ortasında kalakalmış bir hayvan gibi.' -Dwight Garner, The New York Times- 'Kavgam, Knausgaard'ın sıra dışı 6 ciltlik romanı tüm bilinen ticari reklamları alt üst ederek yazarını bir rock yıldızı haline getirdi. Sadece Norveç'te 450.000 adet satıldı, her 9 yetişkinden biri Kavgam'ı okudu.' -Emma Brockes, The Guardian- 'Bırakamıyorum, bırakmak istiyorum, bırakamıyorum, sadece bir sayfa daha, sonra akşam yemeğini hazırlayacağım, bir sayfa daha…' -Västerbottens-kuriren, İsveç- 'Bu destansı maceranın ilk ilk bölümü, bıkkın ve yorgun okurları bile hayata bağlayacak.' -The Independent- 'Knausgaard'ı okumak Google Earth'e ilk kez bakmak gibi; uzaydan kıtayı, ülkeyi, sonra büyüdüğünüz kasabayı ve caddeyi yakınlaştırıp tıklıyorsunuz. Hepsi orada, sadece tıklamaya devam edin.' -London Review of Books- "Kavgam dürüst ve ustaca çekilmiş bir 'selfie'" -John Powers- 'Kavgam şaşırtıcı bir biçimde büyülüyor - ayrıntılar ve içtenliğin birleşimi, başka birinin beynine girme illüzyonu yaratıyor. Kavgam, kavgaya değer.' -GQ- 'Ardı ardına gelen her kitapta Bay Knausgaard, günümüzün en önemli yazarlarından biri olma ününü pekiştiriyor.' -The Observer (UK)- 'Knausgaard hayatını tüm ayrıntıları ile yazıyor, içine girerek ve içindeki titreşimleri kağıda dökerek.' -Joshua Rothman, Page-Turner- 'Çok güçlü ve canlı… Nefis, kalıcı ve tanrısal paragraflar… Knausgaard son derece çarpıcı ve tamamen dürüst. Evrensel endişelerin sıradan, banal seslerinden korkmuyor çünkü bunlar zaten hayatın akışı ve hepsi farklı şekillerde de olsa herkesin başına geliyor. Knausgaard'ın kitabında, aralıksız, sonu gelmeyen bir tat var. Sonuç cümleleri sakin, yalın ve başarılı. Walter Benjamin'in 'gerçeğin efsanevi yönü' dediği şeye sahipler.' -James Wood, The New Yorker- 'Müthiş bir roman... Çaresiz bir halde devamını bekliyorum cümlesinden başka bir şey söyleyemeyeceğim.' -Dagsavisen, Norveç- 'Tamamen sürükleyici, şaşırtıcı bir içgörü ile aydınlanmış sayfaları ve yürek paraçalayıcı dürüstlüğü ile Kavgam dünya edebiyatına tek bir karakteri sunarak bizi insanoğlunun zihninin derinliklerine çekiyor.' -Phillip Lopate- 'Kavgam insanın bakış açısını değiştiren bir kitap. İncil gibi.' -Heather Mallick, The Toronto Star- Karl Ove Knausgaard (1968) Norveç Oslo'da doğmuş olan yazar Karl Ove Knausgaard, tüm dünyada edebi bir sarsıntı yaratan Kavgam adlı 6 kitaptan oluşan romanlar serisi ile tanınmaktadır. Kavgam'ın ilk kitabı 2009'da basıldıktan hemen sonra beş milyon nüfuslu Norveçte büyük bir sansasyon yaratarak yarım milyonluk bir satış hacmine ulaşmıştır. Serinin etkileri dalga dalga yayılarak Amerika ve Avrupa'yı derinden sarsmıştır. Kavgam kısa bir süre içinde 22 dile çevrilmiş ve Knausgaard'ı dünyanın en sıradışı edebiyat fenomeni haline getirmiştir. Yazar şu an İsveç Österlen'de yine bir yazar olan eşi Linda Boström Knausgaard ve 4 çocuğu ile birlikte yaşamaktadır.

My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues—death, love, art, fear—and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.

A family of four--mother, father and two boys--move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory, upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, Book Three gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence."Of course, I remember nothing from this time. It is completely impossible to identify with the infant my parents photographed; this is in fact so difficult it almost seems wrong to use the word 'I' when referring to it, lying in the baby bath, for instance, its skin unnaturally red, its arms and legs sprawling, and its face distorted in a scream no one remembers the reason for anymore ... Is that creature the same as the one sitting here in Malmö, writing this?"--from Book Three of My Struggle

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one's skin. It's strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In my life it almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few months, I will see you for the first time. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays--to name just a handful of his subjects. These oh-so-familiar objects and ideas he fills with new meaning, taking nothing for granted or as given. New life is on the horizon, but the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return, and so a contradictory melancholy inflects his gaze. Startling, compassionate, and exquisitely beautiful, Knausgaard's writing is like nothing else. Somehow, he shows the world as it really is, at once mundane and sublime.

The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Book Five is also a book about strong new friendships and a shattering love affair. Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: his father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel.

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 locals, and receives flattering attention from several beautiful local girls. But as the darkness of the long arctic nights start to consume the landscape, Karl Ove's life takes a darker turn. His writing repeats itself, his drinking escalates to some disturbing blackouts, his attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation and shame, and to his distress, he also develops romantic feelings towards one of his students. Along the way, there are flashbacks to his high school years and the roots of his current problems. Ever present is the long shadow cast by his father, whose own sharply increasing alcohol consumption serves as an ominous backdrop to the author's lifestlye.

"[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence." —James Wood, The New YorkerIn the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, 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.My Struggle: Book 2 is at heart a love story—the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his novel.It is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later readers will be left breathlessly demanding more.

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 ScreamIn 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.

From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change—and the warring impulses between light and dark that live in all of us Shapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders in the forest, black metal bands, and an online bank of thousands of people’s dreams—the star is back. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star kept readers up all night, immersed with nine characters whose individual lives are heightened by the sudden appearance of a blazing new star, and The Wolves of Eternity portrayed the intimate experiences of two estranged half-siblings decades before the star rises. In The Third Realm, the effects of the star are felt around the world, as people start to reckon with what it might possibly mean. With this next novel, the limitless scale and ambition of Knausgaard’s new universe are clear. This is life, death, the human condition, and the real-time creation of an epic and utterly immersive world.

From Book 1: My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues—death, love, art, fear—and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.