Opis: Some Rain Must Fall - Karl Ove Knausgård

At 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. "[Some Rain Must Fall] is Knausgaard at his best... It's a rare novelist who writes about student bars and the Happy Mondays at the same time as yearning for spiritual salvation." -- Max Liu Independent "Raw, fast, improvisatory, unfettered. It's addictive high-wire writing in which he unflinchingly reveals everything about himself." Shortlist "It is a pen-and-paper virtual reality; after reading it you feel that another past has been downloaded into your mind." -- Laurence Scott Financial Times "For Knausgaard's obsessive fans, this cycle is the most exciting literary project of our times... Knausgaard is the most humane writer in the world... He writes beautifully... It is precisely in the commonness of the lovingly recorded details that these books spin their magic." -- Daniel Swift Spectator "Part of Knausgaard's appeal is believability: his books may be called novels but we read them as memoirs. The meticulous detail seems to guarantee their authenticity... Childhood, sex, love, art, work and death are there too, writ small from his own perspective, but compellingly observed." -- Blake Morrison Guardian "As joyful to read as bingeing on a TV box set" -- James Kidd Independent "Tremendous, maddening, addictive autobiographical epic... Gripping account of early manhood... His style is transparent, forward-going, not held up by metaphor - Don Bartlett's translation is outstanding... [Knausgaard's] tone is self-lacerating, fanatical and often funny... He is ambitious to write a novel that will make his name and we suppress, as we read, the acknowledgment that this achievement, this extraordinary work of which he has been dreaming, is the book we hold in our hands." -- Kate Kellaway Observer "The world's most-talked-about memoirist... Utterly compelling... Ultimately it is the detail of Knausgaard's outpouring that makes us realise, paradoxically, how unrecoverable and unknowable our past lives are." -- Andrew Neather Evening Standard "[Knausgaard's] ecstatic descriptions of how loving [Tonje] transforms everything - his body, Bergen and, crucially, his writing - are breathtaking. Knausgaard has a rare talent for making everyday life seem fascinating, but get him started on something as wild as meeting your soulmate or finally finding the voice you always longed to write in after nearly a decade of failure and magic happens." -- Melissa Katsoulis The Times "It's about a man in love with writing about himself, more or less, and goddamn if it isn't enthralling... It's bloody brill." -- Lucy Wood Sugarscape "Reverberates with life's core questions... In its depiction of the torment of writer's block and a young adult's struggle to construct a sense of self, both on and off the page, it is brilliant." -- Anita Sethi Mail on Sunday "This is a man trying to recapture his history in all its unheroic moments, to pay full attention to its life and the ordinary share of pain and beauty he's been accorded." Times Literary Supplement "In Some Rain Must Fall he also shows a startling ability to re-create the world of his younger self, still unformed, his life path not mapped out, no literary success prefigured or expected." Bookseller "Bracing, maddening and utterly compelling." -- Robert Collins The Sunday Times

Szczegóły: Some Rain Must Fall - Karl Ove Knausgård

Tytuł: Some Rain Must Fall
Autor: Karl Ove Knausgård
Wydawnictwo: Harvill Secker
ISBN: 9781846558276
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 672
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 1.01 kg

Recenzje: Some Rain Must Fall - Karl Ove Knausgård