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matthew_whiteman 's review for:
A Man in Love
by Karl Ove Knausgård
such a strange time i have w karl ove. i feel like i've befriended a blabbermouth norwegian novelist with a habit of telling me everything he's done and felt in his life ever. its weirdly addicting tho? like literary reality tv.
i enjoyed this more than the first i think. i felt mixed on the way knausgaard focused on his youth in the first. interesting sure, but with such exacting detail and intellectualisation that it felt kinda anachronistic and revisionist. here tho his voice feels just right for the topics at hand, and the digressions into opinions on literature and life's big questions (tm) didn't feel as unnatural. i didn't mind the almost gilmore girls level of who talks like this in dinner party conversations, pub chats, etc. in fact, i was kinda enthralled, fascinated, or at least on some level interested in these chats.
i think this part also succeeds in having more interesting characters that aren't karl ove - especially his wife linda and bestie geir. it's interesting seeing knausgaard try to apply the same kind of scrutiny to these people that he does to himself, though often they have more to say abt him in the end lol. that's fine too, there's a level of relatability here that lets knausgaard get away with being so granular and self-obsessive about his own behaviour and character, to some extent.
so i guess i'll read all six of these then lol.
i enjoyed this more than the first i think. i felt mixed on the way knausgaard focused on his youth in the first. interesting sure, but with such exacting detail and intellectualisation that it felt kinda anachronistic and revisionist. here tho his voice feels just right for the topics at hand, and the digressions into opinions on literature and life's big questions (tm) didn't feel as unnatural. i didn't mind the almost gilmore girls level of who talks like this in dinner party conversations, pub chats, etc. in fact, i was kinda enthralled, fascinated, or at least on some level interested in these chats.
i think this part also succeeds in having more interesting characters that aren't karl ove - especially his wife linda and bestie geir. it's interesting seeing knausgaard try to apply the same kind of scrutiny to these people that he does to himself, though often they have more to say abt him in the end lol. that's fine too, there's a level of relatability here that lets knausgaard get away with being so granular and self-obsessive about his own behaviour and character, to some extent.
so i guess i'll read all six of these then lol.