They have what Walter Benjamin called ‘the epic side of truth, wisdom.” The concluding sentences of the book placid, plain, achieved. He wants us to inhabit the 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. brings superb, lingering, celestial passages. Where many contemporary writers would reflexively turn to irony, Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties.
Nominated for the Nordic Council Literary Prize Winner of the Brage Award, the Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet, the P2 Listeners’ Prize, and the Norwegian Critics’ Prize
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