i devoured these for similar reasons, i think, though my shame is southern protestant in origin. my mother loved them as well, with her southern baptist repression.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/10/linda-bostrom-knausgard-i-would-like-to-be-seen-as-a-person-and-author-in-my-own-right?
His wife is an ok novelist. I read The Helios Disaster last yr.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
Critics have often failed with Karl, here is a character from Dasa Drnic.
Drndic's character Andreas Ban on Knausgaard. 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/nwOEF7C1tO— Emmett Stinson (@EmmettStinson) September 2, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
I file him with Tao Lin under "fad authors I will never read".
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
pffft
tao lin could never
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
mini kampyhttps://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=110847#unread
― dow, Friday, 11 September 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
I posted this essay in the terrence malick thread a few weeks ago, but it also draws heavily on knausgard and I think it's fantastic so figured I'd share it here too:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/14/the-unbearable-toward-an-antifascist-aesthetic/
― k3vin k., Saturday, 12 September 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
thanks so much for posting that! one of the more thought provoking essays i've read in quite a while, i loved it
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
also, i spotted a typo in the essay.
feels good man
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
I spotted that typo as well. Always teach the spellchecker the proper name of the author, so you don’t ignore the one time you screw it up
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
i think that might be a different typo! there's definitely one in the second to last paragraph. multiple typos! jesus, does anyone even edit the new york review of books, come on
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Lots of mistakes. Refers to Jägerstätter as German
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 12 September 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link