Winter, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Winter, Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Winter

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Series: Seasons #2

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/23/2018


Synopsis

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one's skin. It's strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In my life it almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few months, I will see you for the first time. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays-to name just a handful of his subjects. These oh-so-familiar objects and ideas he fills with new meaning, taking nothing for granted or as given. New life is on the horizon, but the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return, and so a contradictory melancholy inflects his gaze. Startling, compassionate, and exquisitely beautiful, Knausgaard's writing is like nothing else. Somehow, he shows the world as it really is, at once mundane and sublime.

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 on January 17, 2018

An effective, often moving continuation of his excellent Autumn, as Knausgaard continues to write brief pieces to his unborn daughter, trying to explain the world one word at a time. As with the first book in this quartet, there is a pre-occupation with the elemental aspects of humanity, as the auth......more

Goodreads review by Anja on March 15, 2022

Kao i u prvoj knjizi prvi deo knjige mi je bio bolji. Knausgor i ja uvek naiđemo na problem kad on kaže nešto s čim se uopšte ne slažem ili što mi je gnusno. Al predivno piše i čitaću ga i dalje.......more

Goodreads review by Lee on February 05, 2018

More of the same, maybe not as tight, definitely not as novel as the first installment Autumn, the significance feels forced at times, the whole project like practice runs, exercises, but still I enjoy reading it for the world evoked and system of associations — will read the remaining two seasons a......more

Goodreads review by Marko K. on December 28, 2021

''U zimu'' je po formi ista knjiga kao i ''U jesen'', dakle, u pitanju su kratki eseji ili pasusi (nijedan nije duži od tri strane) o svetu oko nas - o stvarima, pojavama, predmetima, osećanjima. Iz te perspektive, jako je teško preporučiti ovu knjigu nekome, jer zašto bi iko hteo da čita šta to nek......more

Goodreads review by holden on January 16, 2021

Karl Ove Knausgård: Zimå je hlådnå, sneg je beo, vråne su ptice, čistim uši štåpićimå zå uši. Veliki såm pisåc, zår ne?! Ja: Naravno Karl Ove, sve kako ti kažeš! Karl Ove Knausgård: I, koju ocenu ćeš mi dåti? Ja: Još pitaš, Ove, pa peticu, naravno! Karl Ove Knausgård: Hvålå lepo, vol. 2, håhåhåhåhå.......more