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29/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Karl Ove Knausgård, Martin Aitken
Publisher:
Archipelago Books
Date:
January 5, 2021
From the author of the six-volume My Struggle series, a collection of essays on art, literature, culture, and philosophy. Knausgaard reflects openly on Ingmar Bergman's notebooks, Anselm Kiefer, the Northern Lights, Madame Bovary, Rembrandt, and the role of an editor.
What The Reviewers Say
Between the slings and arrows born and the writer’s already well established tendency toward fruitful self-absorption, it is not surprising that Knausgaard spends too much time playing defense in In the Land of the Cyclops.
... may prove to be less salacious but no less provocative. Or, at least, no less thought-provoking.
Knausgaard’s critical writing does return obsessively to the question of artistic limits.
These occasional writings reveal a more academic Knausgaard. But, as in the fiction, his intense focus, formidable command of reference and tendency to see the interconnectedness of things make for highly stimulating, almost overwhelming reading.
