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Loading... Spring (original 2016; edition 2018)by Karl Ove Knausgård, Anna Bjerger (Illustrator.), Ingvild Burkey (Translator.)
Work InformationSpring by Karl Ove Knausgård (2016)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. i think about Karl Ove all the time, no shit, he is the man by which I judge other men. Like: can you express why it's nice to take a shit AND why a painting of clouds makes you cry? Can you tell me about the time you masturbated to an art history book AND ALSO write a book about angels? find u a man who can do both. Cannot wait for My Struggle 6, this sounds like a joke and is not. no reviews | add a review
"You don't know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don't know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don't know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don't know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in your chest, day and night, day and night, day and night. So begins Spring, the recommencement of Knausgaard's fantastic and spellbinding literary project of assembling a personal encyclopedia of the world addressed directly to his newly born daughter. But here Knausgaard must also tell his daughter the story of what happened during the time when her mother was pregnant, and explain why he now has to attend appointments with child services. In order to keep his daughter safe, he must tell a terrible story, one which unfolds with acute psychological suspense over the course of a single day. Utterly gripping and brilliantly rendered in Knausgaard's famously sensitive, pensive, and honest style, Spring is the account of a shocking and heartbreaking familial trauma and the emotional epicenter of this singular literary series"-- No library descriptions found. |
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I had a hard time finishing this book though. It is less philosophical than the others and not nearly as absorbing. The spell was broken, and though I can't describe exactly why, I still look forward to "Summer." ( )