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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
Unlike the other three seasonal books in this quartet, Spring is a slow burn day-in-the-life of the Knausgaard family. The present linear unfolding of the day is alternated with flashbacks and other explanatory anecdotal material, as the tension grows towards its dramatic resolution.
Knausgaard's sensitivity to all that surrounds him and his naked admissions of his own faults and mistakes make the material even rawer than it perhaps already is. Combined with the author's ongoing minute observations of his surrounds, be they natural or human, and his philosophical take on the world around him, this book makes for a longer meditation than the individual essays in the other three books.
I admit I am reading these shorter stint books while psyching myself up for the opus My Struggle, but the more I read of Knausgaard, the more he is priming me for that Big Effort.
Knausgaard's sensitivity to all that surrounds him and his naked admissions of his own faults and mistakes make the material even rawer than it perhaps already is. Combined with the author's ongoing minute observations of his surrounds, be they natural or human, and his philosophical take on the world around him, this book makes for a longer meditation than the individual essays in the other three books.
I admit I am reading these shorter stint books while psyching myself up for the opus My Struggle, but the more I read of Knausgaard, the more he is priming me for that Big Effort.
Jeg har litt lyst til å hate denne boka, men jeg synes den var utrolig vakker, interessant, og jeg synes det var noe veldig naturlig over den, noe jeg synes er ganske imponerende spesielt med alle de filosofiske partiene.
理解Spring评分这么高的原因了，这本书写给第四个孩子，相当于是《我的奋斗》的续集
人物依然是Karl Ove，一样是写家庭、树木、阳光、驾车和海
只有192页，相隔五年时间，下笔成熟了不少，更加温柔、细腻和精简。同样的内容如果是写《我的奋斗》时期来写估计400页跑不了
最大的一点不同的是，Spring这本非常uplifting，一样大幅度地描写生活的痛苦，笔尖随意一转写起了生活的美好和希望，简直smooth得不行，好像看魔法
看采访老克说他是乐观主义者，读完Spring我才真正相信他
人物依然是Karl Ove，一样是写家庭、树木、阳光、驾车和海
只有192页，相隔五年时间，下笔成熟了不少，更加温柔、细腻和精简。同样的内容如果是写《我的奋斗》时期来写估计400页跑不了
最大的一点不同的是，Spring这本非常uplifting，一样大幅度地描写生活的痛苦，笔尖随意一转写起了生活的美好和希望，简直smooth得不行，好像看魔法
看采访老克说他是乐观主义者，读完Spring我才真正相信他
Back on my sweet sweet bullshit. For anyone not keeping score at home, I’m a My Struggle stan and so the first two in Knausgaard’s Seasons Quartet, Autumn and Winter were a bit disappointing. This one, on the other hand, was an absolute delight. I feel like I just took a hit of some drug after kicking a habit a few years ago. Zzzzap!
‘You see, the beauty of this world means nothing if you stand alone in it.’
‘We come from far away, from terrifying beauty, for a newborn child who opens its eyes for the first time is like a star, is like the sun, but we live our lives amid pettiness and stupidity, in a world of burned hot dogs and wobbly camping tables. The great and terrifying beauty does not abandon us, it is there all the time, in everything that is always the same, in the sun and the stars, in the bonfire and the darkness, in the blue carpet of flowers beneath the tree. It is of no use to us, but we can look at it, and we can now before it.’
‘We come from far away, from terrifying beauty, for a newborn child who opens its eyes for the first time is like a star, is like the sun, but we live our lives amid pettiness and stupidity, in a world of burned hot dogs and wobbly camping tables. The great and terrifying beauty does not abandon us, it is there all the time, in everything that is always the same, in the sun and the stars, in the bonfire and the darkness, in the blue carpet of flowers beneath the tree. It is of no use to us, but we can look at it, and we can now before it.’
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Brilliant and raw. His honesty is astounding and his internal life, so deeply relatable. He continues to put into words experiences so common yet unnameable. But this volume feels more special because, even more so than Autumn, it is grounded by his unwavering love for his child amidst all the chaos he has to endure.
From the child’s perspective, though, it does make me wonder, what it must be to have your parents’ lives and thoughts narrated in such granularity.
From the child’s perspective, though, it does make me wonder, what it must be to have your parents’ lives and thoughts narrated in such granularity.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced