In the Land of the Cyclops

Essays

Karl Ove Knausgaard author Martin Aitken translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Jan '23

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A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.

In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction.

Here, Knausgaard discusses Madame Bovary, the Northern Lights, Ingmar Bergman, and the work of an array of writers and visual artists, including Knut Hamsun, Michel Houellebecq, Anselm Kiefer and Cindy Sherman.

These essays beautifully capture Knausgaard's ability to mediate between the deeply personal and the universal, demonstrating his trademark self-scrutiny and his deep longing to authentically see, understand, and experience the world.

'Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive' New York Times

A profound (and profoundly eclectic) collection of essays * Daily Telegraph, *Summer Reads of 2021* *
A modern Roland Barthes... Knausgaard has a gift for stopping the reader in their tracks with an unexpected, casual profundity -- Steven Poole * Daily Telegraph *

ISBN: 9781784700386

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 21mm

Weight: 257g

320 pages