"Quando si sa troppo poco, è come se questo poco non esistesse, ma anche quando si sa troppo, è come se questo troppo non ci fosse. Scrivere significa portare alla luce l'esistente facendolo emergere dalle ombre di ciò che sappiamo. La scrittura è questo. Non quello che vi succede, non gli avvenimenti che vi si svolgono, ma lì, in se stessa. Lì, risiede il luogo e l'obiettivo dello scrivere. Ma come si arriva a questo lì? Era questa la domanda che mi ponevo mentre seduto su una panchina di quel quartiere di Stoccolma bevevo caffè e i muscoli si stavano rattrappendo dal freddo e il fumo della sigaretta si dissolveva in quell'enorme spazio fatto d'aria che mi sovrastava. Per molti anni avevo cercato di scrivere di mio padre, ma senza riuscirci, sicuramente perché tutto questo era troppo vicino alla mia vita e quindi non era facile costringerlo in un'altra forma, che invece costituisce il presupposto base della letteratura. È la sua unica legge: tutto deve piegarsi alla forma. Ecco perché gli scrittori che posseggono uno stile marcato scrivono spesso libri deboli. Ecco perché quegli autori che si occupano di argomenti e temi forti scrivono libri deboli. La potenza insita nel tema e nello stile deve essere spezzata affinché possa nascere la letteratura. È questa demolizione che viene definita 'scrivere'. Lo scrivere riguarda più il distruggere che il creare."
Karl Ove Knausgaard Libri
Karl Ove Knausgård è rinomato per la sua penetrante analisi della vita quotidiana e della psiche umana. La sua scrittura si addentra nelle profondità dell'esperienza personale, esplorando relazioni complesse e temi esistenziali. Lo stile di Knausgård è sia intimo che epico, consentendo ai lettori di connettersi profondamente con i suoi personaggi e i loro mondi. La sua opera autobiografica è diventata un fenomeno letterario che risuona tra le culture.






Some rain must fall
- 672pagine
- 24 ore di lettura
The International bestseller As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and clich�d, and his social efforts are a dismal failure. He drowns his shame in drink and rock music. Then, little by little, things begin to change. He falls in love, gives up writing and the beginnings of an adult life take shape. That is, until his self-destructive binges and the irresistible lure of the writer's struggle pull him back. In this latest instalment of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard writes with unflinching honesty to deliver the full drama of everyday life.
The Third Realm
- 512pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
Set against a backdrop of cosmic mystery, the narrative explores the profound impact of a newly appeared star on humanity. Characters navigate a world filled with shapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders, and the haunting allure of black metal music, all while grappling with the implications of their dreams. The story delves into themes of life, death, and the human experience, offering readers an immersive journey through an expansive universe crafted by Karl Ove, where the boundaries of reality and imagination blur.
In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. In A Death in the Family Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. A profoundly serious, gripping and hugely readable work written as if the author's very life were at stake.
Spring is a deeply moving, lyrical memoir that reflects on family, everyday life, joys, and struggles, all set within a single day. It begins on April 13, 2016, as the author shares his experiences and thoughts, acknowledging the pain of living while emphasizing the importance of finding something to live for. In this third volume of the Seasons quartet, we follow Karl Ove and his three-month-old daughter, Anna, throughout a day filled with routine, the light of new life, and the shadows of deeper struggles. The narrative celebrates the beauty of the ordinary, revealing the significance hidden within small events in our lives. Unlike the first two volumes, which consist of short texts reflecting on nature and the material world, this installment is a narrative memoir that reads like a short novel. It is emotionally captivating and serves as an accessible entry point for new readers, while also resonating deeply with devoted fans. This edition is beautifully illustrated by acclaimed Swedish artist Anna Bjerger, enhancing the overall experience of the text.
Dancing in the dark. My struggle. Book 4.
- 560pagine
- 20 ore di lettura
The fourth part of a sensational literary cycle that has been hailed as "perhaps the most important literary enterprise of our times." --Rachel Cusk, Guardian 18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself -- or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine: He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable locals and receives flattering attention from several beautiful local girls. But then, as the darkness of the long polar nights start to cover the beautiful landscape, Karl Ove's life also takes a darker turn. The stories he writes tend to repeat themselves, his drinking escalates and causes some disturbing blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation and shame, and to his own distress he also develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. Along the way, there are flashbacks to his high school years and the roots of his current problems. And then there is the shadow of his father, whose sharply increasing alcohol consumption serves as an ominous backdrop to Karl Ove's own lifestyle.
Boyhood Island
- 496pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now * Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be. 'Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel' Times Literary Supplement
The end : my struggle : book 6
- 1168pagine
- 41 ore di lettura
The End is the sixth and final book in the monumental My Struggle cycle. Here, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project. This last volume reflects on the fallout from the earlier books, with Knausgaard facing the pressures of literary acclaim and its often shattering repercussions. The End is at once a meditation on writing and its relationship with reality, and an account of a writer's relationship with himself - his ambitions, his doubts and frailties. My Struggle depicts life in all its shades, from moments of great drama to seemingly trivial everyday details. It is a project freighted with risk, where the bounds between private and public worlds are tested, not without penalty for the author himself and those around him
Two adult siblings learn of their surprising shared history in this searching prequel to The Morning Star, set between Norway and Russia The future is no more, and eternity has begun. Norway, 1986. The government is in crisis, and far away in Russia, a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert L yning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts o[Bokinfo].
A Time for Everything
- 528pagine
- 19 ore di lettura
What if God exists? What if angels are real? What if we treated religious tracts, including the Bible, as empirical evidence of the supernatural world? Karl Ove Knausgaard's major novel, A Time For Everything, is about God and his angels. It posits that angels are real, and that God exists. It posits, further, that heavenly beings evolve, and that even God may be subject to change


