In the land of the cyclops : essays / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken, with additional translations by Ingvild Burkey and Damion Searls.
Ten Years Old. Pig Person -- Inexhaustible Precision -- Fate -- Welcome to Reality -- America of the Soul -- At the Bottom of the Universe -- Tandaradei! -- Michel Houellebecq's Submission -- Feeling and Feeling and Feeling -- Idiots of the Cosmos -- In the Land of the Cyclops -- The Other Side of the Face -- Life in the Sphere of Unending Resignation -- Madame Bovary -- To Where the Story Cannot Reach -- The World Inside the World -- Ten Years Old.
Summary:
"In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English. He explores art, philosophy, literature, or something as simple as a trip to the beach with his kids, with piercing candor and intelligence. Paired with full-color images throughout, his essays render the shadowlands of Cindy Sherman's photography, illuminate the depth of Stephen Gill's eye, or tussle with the inner-workings of Ingmar Bergman's workbooks. In one essay he describes the speckled figure of Francesca Woodman, arms coiled in birch bark and reaching up toward the sky - a tree. In another, he unearths Sally Mann's photographs of decomposing corpses, drawn to the point at which branches and limbs, hair and grass harmonize. Each essay bristles with Knausgaard's searing honesty and longing to authentically see, understand, and experience the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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