Autumn, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Autumn, Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Autumn

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Series: Seasons #1

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 4 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/22/2017


Synopsis

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 mesmerizing 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.

About Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first-ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. The My Struggle cycle of novels has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it has appeared, and the first volume was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam

I loved this work, a huge departure from the maximalist, inward-peering sprawl of MY STRUGGLE, whose quality has been sadly lost in the Sturm und Drang that has surrounded Knausgaard’s rise to fame. He has always been an extraordinarily good line-level writer (except for his notoriously horrendous d......more

Goodreads review by Ilse

Labial lyricism and the art of perception ’Maybe you take notice…maybe not, in the course of a life we gaze into thousands of eyes, most of them slipping by unperceived, but then suddenly there is something there, in those very eyes, something you want and which you would do almost anything to be cl......more

Goodreads review by Vit

Faithfully, page by page, Karl Ove Knausgård keeps gormandizing trivia of living… …there’s no reason to be cautious or anxious about anything, life is so robust, it seems to come cascading, blind and green, and at times it is frightening, because we too are alive, but we live in what amounts to a con......more