Knausgaard's 'Autumn' Considers Everything From Toilet Bowls To Twilight
Karl Ove Knausgaard — known for his six-volume autobiographical series My Struggle — is now writing meditative, short texts, focused on a variety of topics, interspersed with letters to his daughter.
by Ari Shapiro
Aug 22, 2017
3 minutes
Author Karl Ove Knausgaard — known for his six-volume autobiographical series, My Struggle — has embarked on a brand new multi-part project. Autumn, the first in a four-part quartet, is a collection of texts, each focused on a single subject.
In these short studies, Knausgaard considers a wide variety of tangible and intangible topics — apples, wasps, silence, jellyfish, fingers, forgiveness, dawn.
He weaves those texts in with letters to his youngest daughter, written before her
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