![]() ![]() Excellent when considering his work's relation to politics, especially in Beirut but also, again, the title essay. Best when writing about writing, editing, writers, and daily life, more so than when describing photographs and paintings. It's sequenced well, opening with essays on photographers and artists before moving on to Houllebecq's Submission, Hamsun, an essay at one point on one page comparing War and Peace, Ulysses, and 2666, an excellent short piece on Madame Bovary, the title essay about being called a Nazi rapist pedophile by a Swedish feminist professor easily the most charged with emotion, all with familiar glimpses into domestic life in southeastern Sweden and growing up in Norway.Īs in The Seasons Quartet, thematic emphasis is on inner and outer, horizontal and the vertical, but also a new register or dynamic in this: the inside of the internal, the world inside the world - escape from reality deeper into reality to its core. It revisits some of the Munch book's focus on Kiefer, Hamsun, and Stephen Gill, and reminded me of Book Four (teaching up north) and Book Five (becoming a writer, friends with young influential writers named Tore and/or Geir), but for the most part it's a welcome extension of familiar dimensions. If you've read all of My Struggle and A Time For Everything and were wondering which Knausgaard to read next ( The Seasons Quartet, Home and Away, the Munch book, Inadvertent?), this one deserves consideration as your first stop. ![]()
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