Books by Karl Ove Knausgård

6. New Knausgaard novel is coming .

Here are previous MR entries on Knausgaard .  Here is Knausgaard’s forthcoming book So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch .

You can pre-order it here , or if you were in a rush as I was, order from the UK .

3. Karl Ove Knausgaard, Inadvertent (Why I Write) .  92 short pp. on how he thinks about writing, consistently high in quality, the contrast between Kundera and Hamsun was my favorite part.

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Spring , a comeback for Knausgaard.

1. Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn .  While this volume of very short essays does reflect a literary sensibility, I didn’t find it fun or insightful to read.  By the way, “Vomit is usually yellowish and can range from pale yellow to yellowish-brown, with certain areas of quite different colours, like red or green.”  So I suppose the Knausgaard canon really is just the first two volumes of My Struggle .

4. Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund, Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game .  This book is a series of letters, mostly about soccer.  They are more substantive than you might be expecting, but still you have to love both Knausgaard and soccer to enjoy this one, on those I am only one for two.

Imagine a Norwegian Proust, albeit more concrete and with less repetition.  The Amazon link is here , and you will notice that all nine Amazon reviews give it five stars.  Here is a James Wood review from The New Yorker .  Here is Wikipedia on the author .  Here is a good blog review .  Note this is only one out of six volumes, from Norway.