'Winter' is Karl Ove Knausgaard's attempt to make you see things anew
Even though he’s been winning literary awards – both in his native Norway and in the world at large – ever since his literary debut in 1998, I somehow managed to ignore Karl Ove Knausgaard.
That is, I did so until last August, when I read his essay “Gum.” It really is about chewing gum, and yet I understood in an instant that anyone who could write like that was an author of a different order.
“A little ink
