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A review by natalie_and_company
Spring by Karl Ove Knausgård
5.0
This book is the thread that sews together the cut up pieces created by the previous two books in the Seasons Quartet. It fills in the empty spaces that had been left between the short stories of the previous books, taking the reader from a self submerged thought experiment of each piece, from the discombobulated thoughts of a man, into experiencing that very man's life as he experienced it.
The prose is amazing, the imagery is evocating without droning on like descriptive writing can sometimes. The sentence flow is immaculate and there is a deeply dark undertone to everything written despite the story being written in a fairly objective style. Like the last few dark thoughts of winter that grip your heart, as you wait for the sun to melt them away once it emerges from the winter sky.
His sporadic comments faired very well when written into one cohesive narrative. The change in style disrupts the monotonous voice of the previous two books. Just as spring disrupts the monotony of the colder months.
This volume has the largest reach, its readable separately from the other in the quartet and holds just as much value on its own as it does within the set.
The prose is amazing, the imagery is evocating without droning on like descriptive writing can sometimes. The sentence flow is immaculate and there is a deeply dark undertone to everything written despite the story being written in a fairly objective style. Like the last few dark thoughts of winter that grip your heart, as you wait for the sun to melt them away once it emerges from the winter sky.
His sporadic comments faired very well when written into one cohesive narrative. The change in style disrupts the monotonous voice of the previous two books. Just as spring disrupts the monotony of the colder months.
This volume has the largest reach, its readable separately from the other in the quartet and holds just as much value on its own as it does within the set.