✍ Scribed by Karl Ove Knausgård
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Hardcover, 528 pages
Published: 2009
Edition: Harvill Secker, Vintage (2013)
Translated from the Norwegian by: Don Bartlett (2013)
Original Title: Min Kamp 2 Andre bok (2009)
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.
Book Two is at heart a love story—the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of Stockholm keeping him from (and filling) his novel.
"Intense and vital. . . . Where many contemporary writers would reflexively turn to irony, Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties. . . . The need for totality . . . brings superb, lingering, celestial passages. . . . He wants us to inhabit he ordinariness of life, which is sometimes vivid, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone. . . . The concluding sentences of the book are placid, plain, achieved. They have what Walter Benjamin called 'the epic side of truth, wisdom.'"—James Wood, The New Yorker
"Ruthless beauty."—Aftenposten
"This first installment of an epic quest should restore jaded readers to life."—The Independent
"Between Proust and the woods. Like granite; precise and forceful. More real than reality."—la Repubblica (Italy)
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