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My Struggle: Book One introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable.

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar; the journalist Jostein is out on the town; and his wife, Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is.

Eighteen years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a schoolteacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career.

Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot's shame in Sodom; Noah's isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the 17th century.

In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.

My Struggle introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intense and irresistible to hear. Unafraid of the big issues - death, love, art, fear - and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.

As a 19-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published.

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. A day filled with everyday routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness.

Originale tankerækker og inspirerende overvejelser fra Karl Ove Knausgård, den norske forfatter, der indtog verden med kæmpeværket Min kamp. "Formidable Knausgård" - 5 hjerter i POLITIKEN "Endnu en gang er vi som læsere vidne til Karl Ove Knausgårds minutiøst registrerende univers og helt unikke forfatterstemme", KRISTELIGT DAGBLAD "Karl Ove Knausgård er ikke bare en romanforfatter, men også en blændende essayist.

"Min kamp", er en roman om kærlighed og venskab, forældre og svigerforældre, om livet med små børn i en svensk by og om skrivning som et forsøg på forløsning og overskridelse af egne begrænsninger. I bind to af det ambitiøse seksbindsværk "MIN KAMP" dykker Karl Ove Knausgård ned i familielivet med alt, hvad det indebærer, og han fremstiller som i første bog sit liv i alle dets detaljer og nuancer med hudløs ærlighed.

Das eigene Leben offen, schonungslos und radikal zum Gegenstand des Schreibens zu machen - dies ist das Konzept, zu dem sich Karl Ove Knausgård in einem furiosen Mammutprojekt entschlossen hat. Radikal ehrlich und mit unglaublicher sprachlicher Kraft nähert er sich in "Sterben", dem ersten Roman einer sechsbändigen Serie, seinem schwierigen Verhältnis zum Vater, das ihn grundlegend geprägt hat.

MIN KAMP, bog tre, er en roman om barndom. En familie på fire, mor, far og to drenge flytter til et hus i et nybygget villakvarter på Sørlandet. Det er i starten af 1970'erne, børnene er små, forældrene er unge og fremtiden ligger åben for dem. Men på et eller andet tidspunkt begynder den at lukke sig, og tingene ændrer karakter. Hvem eller hvad er det, der ændrer sig? MIN KAMP, bog tre, beskriver verden set med barnet Karl Oves øjne. Børn og voksne lever side om side, men mødes aldrig rigtigt.

Et barn skal fødes. Og en far sætter sig ned for at skrive til det. Han vil vise barnet, hvad der venter det, den myriade af fænomener og materie, dyr og mennesker, som vi kalder verden. Han skriver om solen og om grævlingen, om termokanden og om pisset, om sengen og om ensomheden, mens barnet vokser i mørket. "Om efteråret" er første bind af fire i en personlig encyklopædi om den nære virkelighed, skrevet af en far til hans ufødte barn. Karl Ove Knausgård (f. 1968) debuterede som forfatter i 1998.