<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/burnaby/rss/search?query=Knausg%C3%A5rd%2C%20Karl%20Ove&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:15:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The School of Night]]></title><description><![CDATA["1985. Young Kristian Hadeland - ambitious, driven, and ruthless by nature - moves to London from Norway to study photography. His first year in the big city is marked by many setbacks, but several galvanizing encounters. Kristian falls under the influence of the ten-years-older Dutchman, Hans, who is obsessed with technology, from the early days of photography and the gramophone to the slow takeover of reality by computers. Around the same time, Kristian also meets Vivian, a theatre director who is staging Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and Kristian agrees to be the production's official photographer. Twenty-four years later, Kristian is a successful artist with a major retrospective exhibition in New York on the horizon. He has achieved his goals, but at what cost? A visceral and ingenious retelling of the Faust legend, marking a major turning point in the sprawling Morning Star universe, The School of Night stands alone while answering deep questions for fans of The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, and The Third Realm."--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1867232</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1867232</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1867232002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039056855/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Third Realm]]></title><description><![CDATA["From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, an expansive, kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change--and the warring impulses towards light and dark that live in all of us. One summer day, while on vacation with her husband and children, the artist Tove begins to hear voices. These voices promise to grant her an extraordinary power--but also demand a sacrifice in exchange. Gaute, a schoolteacher, is tormented by thoughts of his wife Kathrine's infidelity, while one of his students begins to be similarly possessed by intense nightmares. The architect Helge is racked by sudden, intense guilt about a car crash he witnessed forty years ago. Nineteen year-old Line falls in love with Valdemar, the charismatic front man of a black metal band, and finds herself drawn into the band's strange, ritualistic world. And the police officer Geir, while investigating a horrific triple murder, stumbles upon a theory too inexplicable to share with anyone. Uniting these seemingly disparate lives is the presence of a blazing new star in the sky, which seems to have shifted the world in ways that none of them can understand. Most unsettling of all is the undertaker Syvert's realization that no one--not a single person--has died since the star's appearance days ago. It's as if the world is haunted--but by whom, and why? Building on the worlds of The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Kingdom is an eerie and extraordinary new novel from Karl Ove Knausgaard--a meditation on ordinary life in a time of creeping, undeniable change from one of the world's most inimitable writers."--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1772041</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1772041</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1772041002</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039009479/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Third Realm]]></title><description><![CDATA["One summer day, while on vacation with her husband and children, the artist Tove begins to hear voices. These voices promise to grant her an extraordinary power--but also demand a sacrifice in exchange. Gaute, a schoolteacher, is tormented by thoughts of his wife Kathrine's infidelity, while one of his students begins to be similarly possessed by intense nightmares. The architect Helge is racked by sudden, intense guilt about a car crash he witnessed forty years ago. Nineteen year-old Line falls in love with Valdemar, the charismatic front man of a black metal band, and finds herself drawn into the band's strange, ritualistic world. And the police officer Geir, while investigating a horrific triple murder, stumbles upon a theory too inexplicable to share with anyone. Uniting these seemingly disparate lives is the presence of a blazing new star in the sky, which seems to have shifted the world in ways that none of them can understand. Most unsettling of all is the undertaker Syvert's realization that no one--not a single person--has died since the star's appearance days ago. It's as if the world is haunted--but by whom, and why?"--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1767850</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1767850</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1767850002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039009462/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolves of Eternity]]></title><description><![CDATA["The transporting, standalone continuation of the acclaimed, apocalyptically-charged novel The Morning Star-the second in a bold new series. In 1986, twenty-year-old Sivert Loyning returns from the military to his mother's home in Southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream, desperately trying to tell him something. As Sivert begins to investigate his father's life, clues point to the Soviet Union. And when he learns he has a half-sister there, the product of an affair his father had with a Russian woman, it undermines his entire notion of who he is. In present-day Russia, Alevtina, Sivert's half-sister, is traveling with her young son to the home of her stepfather, to celebrate his eightieth birthday. As a young woman, Alevtina had been willing to ask big questions about life and human consciousness, and she wasn't afraid to search for the complex and perhaps unknowable answers. But after an unsettling event in her twenties, she chose a more conventional career path. As an established evolutionary biologist approaching middle-age, she wonders why she has been so determined to keep her world within such a practical and established framework. What is she afraid of? As these two characters intersect, two very different approaches to life's great mystery emerge. And as a bright star appears in the sky, it illuminates the wonder of human existence and the mysteries that exist beyond our own worldview. Set against the political and cultural backdrop of the 1980s and present day, The Wolves of Eternity is an expansive and affecting book about inheritance and kinship, siblings and soulmates, and the temporal and eternal"--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1700474</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1700474</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1700474002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039003279/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Land of the Cyclops]]></title><description><![CDATA[From this New York Times bestselling author comes a collection of ambitious, remarkably erudite essays on art, literature, culture, and philosophy. In the Land of the Cyclops is a collection of thirty-seven essays by Karl Ove Knausgaard. In these pieces, he discusses Swedish politics, brain surgery, Laurie Anderson, Edvard Munch, the northern lights, and the work of an array of writers and visual artists (paired with full colour images of their art). 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.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1434233</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1434233</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1434233002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345810571/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Morning Star]]></title><description><![CDATA[On a seemingly normal night in August, a huge star appears suddenly in the sky. No one, not even astronomers and weather experts on TV can explain this alarming celestial phenomenon. Is it a newly discovered dying star? Or something new? Eventually, the interest in the news subsides and life goes on, but not quite as before. Reports of shocking portents and unsettling happenings pour in from the fringes of human existence. Creatures that previously existed only in nightmares, mythology, and computer games stalk through the forest, while animals and the environment itself appear to be behaving in strange new ways. Over several days, six characters will come to understand what is happening, each in their own way, and all face new struggles in their own lives.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1463881</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1463881</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1463881002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345811158/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Struggle]]></title><description><![CDATA["The sprawling, intimate, and spectacularly unorthodox literary autobiography that unleashed a media frenzy upon its release in Norway, became a global publishing sensation, and sold millions of copies worldwide, now reaches its climactic conclusion. In this poignant and characteristically substantial finale, Karl Ove, in his inimitable style, delves once again into his deepest thoughts and most revealing memories, for the first time reflecting on the impact publishing My Struggle has had on his personal life and career. His subject expands from himself to the books, ideas, and historical figures that have shaped him, culminating in an impassioned statement of his artistic purpose. The first global literary phenomenon of the twenty-first century, which has been published in more than twenty-two languages, is now, finally, available in its entirety in English. Translated from the Norwegian by superstar literary translators Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken."--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1727058</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1727058</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1727058002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The End</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345809995/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Struggle]]></title><description><![CDATA["18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman’s village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself – or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine: He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable locals and receives flattering attention from several beautiful local girls. But then, as the darkness of the long polar nights start to cover the beautiful landscape, Karl Ove’s life also takes a darker turn. The stories he writes tend to repeat themselves, his drinking escalates and causes some disturbing blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation and shame, and to his own distress he also develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. Along the way, there are flashbacks to his high school years and the roots of his current problems. And then there is the shadow of his father, whose sharply increasing alcohol consumption serves as an ominous backdrop to Karl Ove’s own lifestyle."-- Goodreads.com]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1726122</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1726122</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1726122002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Dancing in the Dark</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780099581529/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer]]></title><description><![CDATA["Summer is the fourth and final volume of the Seasons series--Karl Ove Knausgaard's personal encyclopedia that charts the beautiful and complex world we all inhabit for, dedicated to his newborn daughter. Every day for one summer, Karl Ove sits down to write about the seemingly mundane things that make up his close reality: lawn sprinklers, chestnuts, short trousers, salt, cats, campsites, intelligence, butterflies, foam, earthworms, cynicism, slugs, and summer rain. This evocative and unpredictable collection of short writings is punctuated by diary entries, where the small events the author's family's life are recorded against a backdrop of the summer season and the meditativeness it engenders: reflections, memories, longings, experiences of art and literature. Featuring stunning artwork specially created for the book by the legendary painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, Summer is a sumptuous and provocative testament to the intense pursuit of meaning in the moments that glide by. In the narrative of what is and what has been, there is the possibility that everything could always be different."--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1231065</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1231065</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1231065002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345811127/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA["Spring is a deeply moving, lyrical, and inspiring memoir about family, our everyday lives, our joys and struggles, set over the course of a single day. 'Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for.' In Spring, third volume of the Seasons quartet, we follow Karl Ove and his three-month-old daughter, Anna, over the course of one day in April, from sunrise to sunset: a day filled with routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness. In Spring, one of the world's most beguiling literary artists celebrates the greatness of the everyday--the beautiful and the painful--and the big things that hide behind the smallest events in all our lives. Whereas the first two books in Knausgaard's sublime Seasons series are comprised of short texts--sightings of things and places, associations and reflections related to nature and the material world--Spring is a narrative memoir that reads like a short novel. Emotionally captivating, it is the most accessible of all his books for new Karl Ove readers keen to enter into his writing, while also deeply moving for his devoted readers. This beautiful edition is illustrated by the acclaimed Swedish artist Anna Bjerger."--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1222153</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1222153</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1222153002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345811097/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Struggle]]></title><description><![CDATA["The young Karl Ove moves to Bergen to attend the Writing Academy. It turns out to be a huge disappointment: he wants so much, knows so little, and achieves nothing. His contemporaries have their manuscripts accepted and make their debuts while he begins to feel the best he can do is to write about literature. With no apparent reason to feel hopeful, he continues his exploration of and love for books and reading. Gradually his writing changes; his relationship with the world around him changes too. This becomes a novel about new, strong friendships and a serious relationship that transforms him until the novel reaches the existential pivotal point: his father dies, Karl Ove makes his debut as a writer and everything disintegrates. He flees to Sweden, to avoid family and friends."--From publisher.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1729718</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1729718</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1729718002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Some Rain Must Fall</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345815552/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The birth of Karl Ove Knausgard's youngest daughter draws near. Prompted to see the world anew, he writes short pieces on everything from winter boots to the brain, describing to her the wonders of life.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1215898</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1215898</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1215898002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345811066/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn]]></title><description><![CDATA["A love letter to his unborn daughter, Autumn is for every reader who thinks about what the world holds for their child, and is the first book in a surprising, deeply personal and humane quartet: The Seasons--the new project from the always fascinating, original global literary superstar. Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove writes to his unborn daughter, showing her what to expect of the world she will soon come into. He writes one short piece per day, describing the material and natural world with the wonder and mesmerising intensity that have become his trademark. This beautifully illustrated book is a personal encyclopaedia on everything from chewing gum to the stars. Through close observation of the objects and phenomena around him, Karl Ove shows us how vast, unknowable and wondrous the world is."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1198418</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1198418</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1198418002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345811035/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home and Away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected letters. Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee, and Argentina. Fredrik Ekelund is away, in Brazil, where he plays soccer on the beach and watches matches with others. Ekelund loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful soccer. He likes caipirinhas and Brazil. Home and Away is an unusual soccer book, in which the two authors use soccer and the World Cup in Brazil as the arena for reflections on life and death, art and politics, class and literature. What does it mean to be at home in a globalized world? This exchange of letters opens up new vistas and gives us stories from the lives of two creative writers. We get under their skin and gain insight into their relationships with modern times and soccer's place in their lives, the significance the game has for people in general, and the question Was this the best soccer championship ever?]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1167059</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1167059</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1167059002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Writing the Beautiful Game</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374279837/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Struggle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes, and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1727080</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1727080</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1727080002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Boyhood Island</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780099581499/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Struggle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction. This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know. It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too. A Man in Love, the second book of six in the My Struggle cycle, sees Knausgaard write of tempestuous relationships, the trials of parenthood and an urge to create great art. His singular insight and exhilirating honesty must be read to be believed.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1077731</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1077731</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1077731002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Man in Love</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780099555179/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Struggle]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. "A Death in the Family" is a Proustian exploration of his past, in which Knausgaard creates a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. "A Death in the Family" is a profoundly serious, gripping and hugely readable work written as if the author's very life were at stake.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C981550</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C981550</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/981550002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Death in the Family</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781846554681/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolves of Eternity]]></title><description><![CDATA["The transporting, standalone continuation of the acclaimed, apocalyptically-charged novel The Morning Star--the second in a bold new series. In 1986, twenty-year-old Sivert Loyning returns from the military to his mother's home in Southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream, desperately trying to tell him something. As Sivert begins to investigate his father's life, clues point to the Soviet Union. And when he learns he has a half-sister there, the product of an affair his father had with a Russian woman, it undermines his entire notion of who he is. In present-day Russia, Alevtina, Sivert's half-sister, is traveling with her young son to the home of her stepfather, to celebrate his eightieth birthday. As a young woman, Alevtina had been willing to ask big questions about life and human consciousness, and she wasn't afraid to search for the complex and perhaps unknowable answers. But after an unsettling event in her twenties, she chose a more conventional career path. As an established evolutionary biologist approaching middle-age, she wonders why she has been so determined to keep her world within such a practical and established framework. What is she afraid of? As these two characters intersect, two very different approaches to life's great mystery emerge. And as a bright star appears in the sky, it illuminates the wonder of human existence and the mysteries that exist beyond our own worldview. Set against the political and cultural backdrop of the 1980s and present day, The Wolves of Eternity is an expansive and affecting book about inheritance and kinship, siblings and soulmates, and the temporal and eternal."--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1700226</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1700226</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1700226002</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039003286/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inadvertent]]></title><description><![CDATA["Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1235733</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1235733</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knausgård, Karl Ove]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1235733002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300221510/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man]]></title><description><![CDATA[Portrays a young Irish Catholic's family experiences, political views, and poetic inspirations.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1144526</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1144526</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joyce, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1144526002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143108245/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled young man living in a small house in the Norwegian countryside with his sister Hege. Eking out a modest living knitting sweaters, Hege encourages her brother to find work to ease their financial burdens, but his attempts come to nothing. When he finally sets himself up as a ferryman, the only passenger he manages to bring across the lake is a lumberjack, Jørgen. But when Jørgen and Hege become lovers, Mattis finds the safety of his familial life threatened and his jealousy quickly spirals. In The Birds, Norway's most celebrated writer of the twentieth century allows us to rediscover the world. By turns frightening, beautiful, confounding, and full of mystery, it is a world we come to see more vividly through Mattis's eyes.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1842533</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1842533</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vesaas, Tarjei]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1842533002</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781805330820/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edvard Munch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925) was marked by sickness and poverty. His first works centred on the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the deaths of his mother and teenage sister when he was growing up, as well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply religious father disapproved. Encouraged by his encounters with a Bohemian society of artists, writers and poets, he developed a visual landscape that was a radical deviation from the slick society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then so much in vogue. His efforts attracted considerable attention and much criticism, and he practised with little financial success as a painter for ten years before he started to gain his reputation as a profoundly innovative printmaker. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, and with an interview by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, this book will shed new light on the production of some of Munch's most remarkable works.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1286589</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1286589</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Munch, Edvard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1286589002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Love and Angst</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780500480465/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edvard Munch]]></title><description><![CDATA[This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Following a nervous breakdown in 1908, Munch underwent electroshock therapy, which prompted a marked change in his art work. The haunting Self-Portrait between the Clock and the Bed, finished one year before his death, represents a culmination of the themes of mortality, isolation, and anxiety that he explored repeatedly, and provides, in these pages, a perfect lens through which to view the artist's entire oeuvre. Informative essays consider Munch's position in the art world, his conception of self as a means of experimentation, and the psychological content of his paintings, while a previously unpublished foreword by the celebrated Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard offers a new perspective on Munch's life and work. Featuring over 40 masterworks from throughout the painter's career, and an illustrated chronology that traces the progression of his emotional state and its influence on the images he created, this is an intimate, provocative study of an enigmatic artist and his remarkable legacy.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1205357</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1205357</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1205357002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Between the Clock and the Bed</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781588396235/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>