Norway’s Karl Ole Knausgaard Returns with ‘Autumn’
Karl Ove Knausgaard takes a break from struggling with Autumn, the first in an impressionistic quartet
The simultaneous expression of the gigantic and the minuscule, the dull and the piercing, is the achievement of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s , an autobiography so ambitious that it spans some 3,600 pages, meted out in six volumes. The books became an international literary sensation for the cool rigor with which the Norwegian writer probes the intimate contents of his life—interlaced, as a
