There are really few authors I feel so engaged with their story and Karl Ove has been top of them. I don't know how he is doing but in a way I cannot stay away from his 1st book of My Struggle already.. I think it is just incredible to be able to combine memory and fiction in such an organic and genuine way
Wow. What an amazing interview! You know that question all readers are asked, the one about who you’d have at a literary dinner party? This man just made it to the top of my invitee list ... hell, not sure I need to invite anyone else, the dinner conversation would be meaningful, insightful and compelling with just him! 🤓
Why do you think he put that in there? I found it by turns interesting and tedious. I think I would have enjoyed it more as separate essay. I kept thinking that it wasn't what I had signed up for, like it actually made me a little angry.
I am half through; and it is unnerving book for our times. It is kinda life that everyone lives but dont have time to realise it cos folk perhaps are too busy updating their "super lives" on Facebooks and Instagrams. Perhaps we create now our new realities to run away from things that Karl Ove reflects about. Or we get "healthier" addictions- I am abuser of literature- I used it and have used it for 25 years as an escape from reality. I think I have to go to rehab to get back to reality. But then what is reality? One thing is for sure, there is no common reality. Reality can be actually subscribed, like a channel on you tube. You stick to it until you are bored. today you can swap the channel. How cynical of me? ;(
The question whether this journey was worth it for Karl Ove Knausgaard is almost ridiculous. A cynical answer: It made him a world famous author, while he had to do it for himself, to "struggle" through his childhood again, with his father, in order to free himself. Does one ever? He created a new childhood and new problems. He is done writing about his life, but he cannot help being an artist, a writer - living in senses so intensely that it spills on paper. A double-life, the most intense and a flight from the "banality" of ordinary - single life.
When reading the sixth book I got bogged down for awhile with the poem he dissected. I was thinking about giving up on the final book because of that, but I am glad I continued because it became very interesting and enjoyable to read after that tedious part for me.
i had the same "struggle" with that fucking poem, and it get worst around page 650... it's like he's putting all his old student's works on this big essay about everything, it's annoying and pretentious, i want to throw the book out from the window but i'm afraid that it would kill someone as it is so big
I like his books, i'm reading the 6th and at the begining i found the idea of an essay in the middle of a novel fantastic but then i felt it's like he's putting all his old student's works on this big essay about everything, it's annoying and pretentious, i want to throw the book out from the window but i'm afraid that it would kill someone (the book it's huge)
I don't know this author but he makes me feel very uncomfortable. An artist who does not have respect for his family and their feelings is not a great writer in my opinion. He seem very confused, and I think he lacks the very kind of inner peace that comes only from God...maybe there is some hidden intention here..I should both read some of his work and pray for the peace of God. ( to you ! ), Mr. Knausgaard...
I've read the book and I think he does have respect for his family. He doesn't describe anyone in a bad way, he's sympathetic to everyone without really realising.
@@YodasPapa thats cool. im' glad you responded so i could get some feedback, i've been thinking about this ever since. its not really something i like to do very much, make a kind of judgmental, loaded statement about others especially when i have almost no actual first hand information ! i pretty much stumbled into it and just expressed my thoughts but was wishing i could somehow read a vast quantity of his material so i could inform myself before making such broad-brushed comments! i basically just decided to to try take a moral stand for once - i love art as much as anyone i know, no matter what kind of creative act it is, but some things (like family ) are sacred -or important, and its not cool to use people or place your creativity before real life relations. that being said - sometimes at has to find a way to do just that because the horrible state of society or whatnot effectively needs to be shaken up- its almost like the artist is in fact the instrument of morality ( etc etc ) with a hard minded, stubborn, cruel, insensitive, uncreative, "unadventerous", close minded society/world /community ( etc etc) that may be part of some dominant mileu/status quo ( etc etc )-whether this may be the family or otherwise... so again being really uniformed personally about Karl Ove Knausgaard i am not trying to suggest any of these things is what he is doing either, but i think the main thing is that i should at least attempt to see it from the "other side" or communicate a voice for the other side as well as well if i am going to make any kinds of generic statements, -well, guess i should apologize for talking my, er , butt off - but that being said i am glad to have found an appreciative or sensitive reader out there...
There are really few authors I feel so engaged with their story and Karl Ove has been top of them. I don't know how he is doing but in a way I cannot stay away from his 1st book of My Struggle already.. I think it is just incredible to be able to combine memory and fiction in such an organic and genuine way
to jak odbieramy jakąkolwiek twórczość, jest współzależne od naszych doświadczeń życia, gdzie i z kim i jak żyjemy.
poznaję Pana twórczość. To przypadek sprawił, że sięgnęłam po Pana książkę, chyba tak bywa. Cieszę się, że doświadczam....dziękuję. Jolanta.
Wow. What an amazing interview! You know that question all readers are asked, the one about who you’d have at a literary dinner party? This man just made it to the top of my invitee list ... hell, not sure I need to invite anyone else, the dinner conversation would be meaningful, insightful and compelling with just him! 🤓
First of all, thank you both. Always love to hear his thoughts.
I had a throbbing heart listening to the Interview!
Kristijan Miksche you sure it was just your heart..
I think he washed his Soul with His writing. Now He looks clean and healthy. : )
A true gift that created a modern masterpiece - thanks Karl Ove
i'm halfway through The End, right in the Hitler stuff which I'm finding more engaging than I thought possible. Lovely interview.
Why do you think he put that in there? I found it by turns interesting and tedious. I think I would have enjoyed it more as separate essay. I kept thinking that it wasn't what I had signed up for, like it actually made me a little angry.
Mr Knausgaard, please set up FB and Twitter pages in English.
I am half through; and it is unnerving book for our times. It is kinda life that everyone lives but dont have time to realise it cos folk perhaps are too busy updating their "super lives" on Facebooks and Instagrams. Perhaps we create now our new realities to run away from things that Karl Ove reflects about. Or we get "healthier" addictions- I am abuser of literature- I used it and have used it for 25 years as an escape from reality. I think I have to go to rehab to get back to reality. But then what is reality? One thing is for sure, there is no common reality. Reality can be actually subscribed, like a channel on you tube. You stick to it until you are bored. today you can swap the channel. How cynical of me? ;(
I feel the opposite as him. I've actually never felt so present in life after I got into litterature and writing.
The question whether this journey was worth it for Karl Ove Knausgaard is almost ridiculous. A cynical answer: It made him a world famous author, while he had to do it for himself, to "struggle" through his childhood again, with his father, in order to free himself. Does one ever? He created a new childhood and new problems. He is done writing about his life, but he cannot help being an artist, a writer - living in senses so intensely that it spills on paper. A double-life, the most intense and a flight from the "banality" of ordinary - single life.
Man, Knausgård has a physical resemblance to Hemingway. Perhaps his antidote as a writer
When reading the sixth book I got bogged down for awhile with the poem he dissected. I was thinking about giving up on the final book because of that, but I am glad I continued because it became very interesting and enjoyable to read after that tedious part for me.
i had the same "struggle" with that fucking poem, and it get worst around page 650... it's like he's putting all his old student's works on this big essay about everything, it's annoying and pretentious, i want to throw the book out from the window but i'm afraid that it would kill someone as it is so big
I like his books, i'm reading the 6th and at the begining i found the idea of an essay in the middle of a novel fantastic but then i felt it's like he's putting all his old student's works on this big essay about everything, it's annoying and pretentious, i want to throw the book out from the window but i'm afraid that it would kill someone (the book it's huge)
Leer..o regalar. Read it or give it away.
Can you elabourate?
😀👍
Just skip it, I did. The rest of the boom is fantastic but I didn't lose any sleep skipping that part.
does anyone know the name of this interviewer?
I do, because it's me: Will Rycroft.
Fantastic interview, fantastic presence, fantastic questions. Thanks Will. @@WaterstonesTV
Maybe they wanted a piece of the pie?
I don't know this author but he makes me feel very uncomfortable. An artist who does not have respect for his family and their feelings is not a great writer in my opinion. He seem very confused, and I think he lacks the very kind of inner peace that comes only from God...maybe there is some hidden intention here..I should both read some of his work and pray for the peace of God. ( to you ! ), Mr. Knausgaard...
I've read the book and I think he does have respect for his family. He doesn't describe anyone in a bad way, he's sympathetic to everyone without really realising.
@@YodasPapa thats cool. im' glad you responded so i could get some feedback, i've been thinking about this ever since. its not really something i like to do very much, make a kind of judgmental, loaded statement about others especially when i have almost no actual first hand information ! i pretty much stumbled into it and just expressed my thoughts but was wishing i could somehow read a vast quantity of his material so i could inform myself before making such broad-brushed comments! i basically just decided to to try take a moral stand for once - i love art as much as anyone i know, no matter what kind of creative act it is, but some things (like family ) are sacred -or important, and its not cool to use people or place your creativity before real life relations. that being said - sometimes at has to find a way to do just that because the horrible state of society or whatnot effectively needs to be shaken up- its almost like the artist is in fact the instrument of morality ( etc etc ) with a hard minded, stubborn, cruel, insensitive, uncreative, "unadventerous", close minded society/world /community ( etc etc) that may be part of some dominant mileu/status quo ( etc etc )-whether this may be the family or otherwise... so again being really uniformed personally about Karl Ove Knausgaard i am not trying to suggest any of these things is what he is doing either, but i think the main thing is that i should at least attempt to see it from the "other side" or communicate a voice for the other side as well as well if i am going to make any kinds of generic statements, -well, guess i should apologize for talking my, er , butt off - but that being said i am glad to have found an appreciative or sensitive reader out there...
please Sir, leave God out of this