Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgårdis a Norwegian author, known for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth6 December 1968
CountryNorway
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.