Summer

Name: Summer
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard
ISBN: 9781980006060

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey

Series: Seasons #4

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/21/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

2 June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four hours. What you will dream of tonight, no one will ever know. Even if you were to remember it when you wake up, you wouldn't have a language in which to communicate it to us, nor do I think that you quite understand what dreams are, I think that is still undefined for you, that your thoughts haven't grasped it yet, and that it therefore lies within that strange zone where it neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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 Ilse

When the darkness darkens at night, at the end of July, beginning of August, when it seems to become more humid and no longer dissolves so quickly in the air, the plums start to ripen. Therefore, their sweet taste always brings with it a hint of melancholy; summer is over again. To everything there i......more

Goodreads review by Marc

"That is one of the tasks of literature, to remind us of our insignificance and make us understand that our own way of producing meaning is merely one of the many possible in the world, along with that of the forest, the plains, the mountains, the sky. The world is untranslatable, but not incomprehe......more

Goodreads review by Lee

A hybrid of the approaches in Autumn, Winter, and Spring. Diary and meditations. Plus something new: a point-of-view shift in the next sentence, always announced in advance like that, from KOK's typical first-person (consistent and reliable narrator/author overlap) to a first person in which the nar......more