![]() There’s a priest stuck in an unfulfilling marriage, a literature professor struggling to care for his wife, an arts journalist whose main problem seems to be that he’s a huge asshole, and several others. It follows a number of characters grappling with the challenges of everyday life, which seem to be worsened by a bright star that mysteriously appears in the sky. If you went to Sunday school or watched Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, that title might ring a bell. That book, The Morning Star, comes out in English this week. ![]() It took him nine years to publish another novel. Regardless, Knausgaard emerged from the project divorced and acclaimed. You might find it brilliant you might find it preposterously self-indulgent. ![]() The books explored his life in excruciating detail, with frequent detours into history, philosophy, and the arts. The Norwegian author’s My Struggle, a six volume series of autobiographical novels named after Hitler’s memoir, was widely hailed as, in the Guardian’s words, “perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our time,” launched intra-familial feuds, and induced its fair share of eye-rolling. Not many authors are successful enough to become a problematic fave, but Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of the few. ![]()
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