At Hazlitt Kyle Buckley has 'The Novel is Like a Room' -- an Interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard
The My Struggle-author makes the completely devastating reveal:
Amusing, however, to hear that:
The My Struggle-author makes the completely devastating reveal:
A Time for Everything was so important because for the first time I am sort of free, in construction, writing, in what a novel should be. In the original Norwegian it starts with an essay, it's a 40-page essay on angels [...] The beginning of A Time was changed in the English version -- my editor said it is impossible, I have to start with a little story. And so we changed that. But this is what I want to do. That's where I want to be in my novels.[Yes, those anguished howls of outrage you hear in the background, that's me, weeping, weeping at the state of US/UK publishing and its lack of faith in readers (in you !), especially when it comes to writing that's foreign and translated and different, and the sins 'editors' commit against literature.]
Amusing, however, to hear that:
I wrote a book about the World Cup this summer, with a friend. We wrote 500 pages and I wrote a lot about my love for football.That's apparently a Norwegian literary tradition -- recall the great Dag Solstad's World Cup books !