Karl Ove Knausgård

Karl Ove Knausgård está luchando con su tercera novela casi diez años después de que su padre se emborrachara hasta morir. Quiere que sea una obra maestra, pero le atormentan las dudas. La mente de K

De los años que captura este libro, apenas quedan unos pocos recuerdos, nos dice el autor. Y, por encima de todos, uno: el de la ignorancia, la ingenuidad, el fracaso. Y, sin embargo, en Tiene que llover un Knausgrd concentrado y frontal exprime su prodi

Una obra vasta y atrevida sobre los secretos de familia y los misterios del universo. Es 1986, ha habido una explosión en la central de Chernóbil, y Syvert Løyning, de diecinueve años, acaba de volve

Mi lucha, de Karl Ove Knausgård, alcanza el Fin, y lo hace llevándonos hasta el principio: Knausgård, enfrentado a un callejón sin salida literario y un punto muerto existencial, acaba de volcar sus

La memoria no atiende al orden cronológico. Avanza, retrocede, se remansa; guarda reposo y, por sorpresa, sin que conozcamos el motivo, se aviva de nuevo, como si la impulsara una súbita iluminación. Es en las mil direcciones en las que se dispara por las que se interna con pasmosa exactitud Mi lucha, el monumental ejercicio de realismo autobiografico de Karl Ove Knausgrd, guiado por una especie de oido absoluto de los recuerdos. Y, de todas ellas, La isla de la infancia (el esperado tercer volumen de su novela) arranca situandonos en la isla de Tromya en el verano de 1969, donde un Karl Ove de ocho meses llega en un carrito empujado por su madre. Desde alli, desde el centro de los inmensos bosques cargados de promesas y misterios (el escenario predilecto de las exploraciones del pequeño Karl Ove, descrito con meticuloso detallismo, objeto de una permanente fascinacion), se despliega un zigzagueante y encendido recuento de experiencias y descubrimientos. La felicidad de la escuela y el esfuerzo por encontrar encaje en ella; las recompensas y fricciones de la amistad; la excitacion de la vida al aire libre con sus travesuras y juegos; el descubrimiento de la cara mas luminosa y la mas amarga del amor; los temores y alegrias; la ropa, la lectura, la musica, el deporte; la familia, la familia por encima de todo, con sus dos figuras antagonicas, difuminada una, omnipresente la otra: la serena confortabilidad de la madre frente al terrorifico autoritarismo paterno, siempre vigilante, dispuesto a examinar y sancionar con violencia cualquier desliz. He aqui los materiales con los que, cerrando el foco y diseñando una voz que se acerca con la mayor veracidad a la experiencia infantil y su cosmovision, se compone la entrega mas dinamica, directa, compacta y magnetica de una empresa literaria imperecedera; un combate inclemente y exitoso, de una sinceridad y crudeza tan descarnadas como inusuales, contra lo mas complejo del recuerdo, la existencia, la identidad. Fascinante. Knausgrd es un heroe que ha alcanzado la grandeza renunciando a cualquier tipo de finta literaria; un emperador cuya desnudez vale mas que los ropajes mas elegantes y regios. Leo sus libros compulsivamente; no puedo parar. A veces aparecen escritores que exigen que hagas cola para su proxima entrega (Jonathan Lethem). Knausgrd mezcla la autoficcion y la reflexion como nadie lo habia hecho antes. Al leerlo, sientes que estas absorbiendo el retrato completo de una vida (Jeffrey Eugenides). Desnudo frontal de cuerpo entero. Y encima lo hace con talento. Eso es ser un artista (Hanif Kureishi). Luminoso y profundo (Hari Kunzru). Una gran obra literaria, verdaderamente original y llamada a perdurar. Hay pocos proyectos artisticos de nuestro tiempo que merezcan mas atencion (The New York Times). Este segmento de una novela inusual, que desafia los generos, dejara a los lectores con hambre del siguiente volumen (Publishers Weekly).

Knausgaard's works have won numerous awards, including the Brage Prize and the Norwegian Critics' Prize and the book has been widely acclaimed and sparked heated debate wherever it has been published.

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.

Writing with 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, this title is the first of the six books in the My Struggle cycle.

A family of four - mother, father and two boys - move to Sorland, to a new house on a new estate. It is the early 1970s, the children are small, the parents young and the future open. But at some point that future happens to them; at some point the future closes. The third book of the My Struggle cycle is set in a world where children and adults live parallel lives, ones that never meet. With insight and honesty, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes of a child's growing self-awareness, of how events of the past impact on the present, and of the desire for other ways of living and other worlds within what we know.

La primera novela de una obra monumental Karl Ove Knausgård está luchando con su tercera novela casi diez años despues de que su padre se emborrachara hasta morir. Quiere que sea una obra maesítra, p

t twenty, Karl Ove moves to Bergen. As the youngest student to be admitted to the prestigious Writing Academy, he arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and cliched, and his social efforts are a dismal failure. Awkward in company and hopeless with women, he drowns his shame in drink and rock music. Then, little by little, things take a brighter turn. He falls in love, gives up writing in favour of the steady rewards of literary criticism, 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 fifth instalment of the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove discloses his personal and often deeply shameful battles with introversion, alcohol abuse, infidelity and artistic ambition. Knausgaard writes with unflinching honesty to deliver the full drama of everyday life, in a breathless novel poised between a desperate yearning to be good, and the terrible power of transgression.

Un homme amoureux n''est pas un livre comme les autres, mais un récit autobiographique d''une force littéraire inouïe. C''est le coup de foudre, la fusion et la séparation, toutes les étapes du senti

A dix-huit ans, Karl Ove Knausgaard part vivre dans un village de pêcheurs au nord du cercle arctique. Il y enseigne la littérature mais rêve de devenir écrivain. Peu à peu s''installe la nuit polair

Peut-on ressusciter une enfance ? Devenu pere, Karl Ove Knausgaard se penche sur ce continent englouti. Il se retrouve face a cet autre lui-meme, gamin trop sensible grandi a l''ombre d''un frere solaire, d''une mere souvent absente et d''un pere aux coleres imprevisibles. La lente maturation des sentiments, les flirts inquiets, la passion du rock et ce defaut de prononciation des r, qui lui gache l''existence... Knausgaard dessine une carte ultrasensible de ses premieres annees. Un voyage affectif d''une fidelite absolue qui reserve des instants de pure lumiere. Immense succes en Norvege, traduit dans le monde entier, La mort d''un pere est un livre a la fois intime et universel. Il pose la question de la possibilite pour la litterature de dire la vie, rien que la vie mais toute la vie.

Par une belle journée d''août 1969, une famille emménage à Tromøya, dans le sud de la Norvège. Le fils cadet, Karl Ove, va y passer son enfance, rythmée par les expéditions à vélo, les filles, les ma

I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the kitchen window, the sun, the water, the trees. You will come to see it in your own way, you will experience things for yourself and live a life of your own, so of course it is primarily for my own sake that I am doing this: showing you the world, little one, makes my life worth living.

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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 Knausgard 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 life style.