In the author’s latest book “In the Land of the Cyclops,” I want to see what Knausgaard sees, even when I’m overwhelmed by it or disagree.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Knausgaard Finds a Soulmate in Edvard Munch
Knausgaard’s monomaniacal excavation of the self and soul probably finds its closest counterpart in the work of Munch, his countryman.
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The Things of Life
Between the bellows and the bed unfolds the universe of Cousin Jules. It is a small world, but polyvalent. He is Jules Guitteaux, a blacksmith in rural Burgundy, husband then widower, and — crucially — cousin of the late filmmaker Dominique Benicheti, whose 1973 documentary film Cousin Jules pays celluloid homage to his existence.
