At one point he and a friend set fire to the woods. As a child, he finds amusement in dropping rocks onto cars driving on the highway. Karl Ove, as he depicts himself-the narrator is explicitly identified with the author-is not an appealing character. Somehow he manages to keep us rooting for his success, even as his disgraces accumulate with the volumes. The fascination of this Brobdingnagian paean to the self, which follows the outline and essence of Knausgaard’s life but fictionalizes scenes and dialogue, lies in watching him fight his way to the creation of himself as a writer-the most important of the “struggles” contained within it. Its 3,600-some pages, at once weirdly self-deprecating and breathtakingly egoistic, began to appear in English, at the rate of a volume a year, in 2012, culminating this fall with the translation of Book Six.
Brutally candid in its banality and sordidness, forsaking conventional strategies of narration and characterization for a heady rush of words on the page, this great disruption of contemporary fiction has sought nothing less than to break the form of the novel. I know all this, as do Knausgaard’s readers around the world, because he has written about it in My Struggle, the massive autobiographical novel that has been the most unlikely international literary sensation of the past decade. The new book spans a couple of August nights in Norway as a new star shines eerily in the sky, while animals and people alike stir restlessly, as if before a disaster.To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app. "Karl Ove Knausgaard's Haunting New Novel". ^ a b Morgenstjernen Forlaget Oktober (in Norwegian).An English translation with the title The Morning Star was published by Penguin Random House in September 2021. The novel was sold in advance to fifteen countries. It was nominated to the Norwegian Bokhandlerprisen in 2020. Morgenstjernen was published 18 September 2020 in Norway, in November 2020 in Denmark and in early 2021 in Sweden (as Morgonstjärnan) to great critical acclaim in all countries. But first and foremost, it is a novel about what happens when the dark forces in the world are set free." The Norwegian publisher described it as "a novel about what we do not understand, about great drama seen through the limited lens of little lives. Knausgård said that a main idea of the novel was to depict how reality and the same events is perceived differently by different people. It was Knausgård's first major novel after his autobiographical My Struggle series. The novel is the story of a number of people's everyday life in Sørlandet and Vestlandet while an extraordinarily bright and large star suddenly appears in the sky. The Morning Star ( Norwegian: Morgenstjernen) is a novel by the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård, published in 2020.
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