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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.
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard is the author of a series of six autobiographical novels called <a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/04/29/403046849/3-600-page-autobiographical-novel-is-an-honest-and-masterful-selfie">My Struggle</a><em>, </em>as well as the novels <em>Out of the World </em>and<em> A Time for Everything.</em>

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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