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joreadsalot 's review for:
The Wolves of Eternity
by Karl Ove Knausgård
‘What if the spring really did retreat? What if the leaves and blossoms all of a sudden failed to appear one year? If it all stopped working and the system broke down?’
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Over 700 pages, I’m exhausted, but in the best kind of way. Can you really say you found a new favourite author after reading just one book? I feel like you can because man, I’m ready to get into the six volumes of his autobiographical series like there’s no tomorrow.
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The plot is a rollercoaster of feelings and happenings. Syvert is a young man who’s unsure about his own ambitions and future. Barely back from his military service, he finds himself stuck at home with his brother when his mother needs to get medical help. In the middle of his confusing feelings towards his deceased father, Syvert finds a few letters in Russian that change his life. Now, the story turns to Alevtina and after 400-500 pages we’re finally in the middle of it all. Who is Alevtina and her connection to Syvert, I’ll let you find out later.
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The style of writing made me feel like I was not only part of the story, but part of the characters’ consciousness. Part of Syvert, part of Alevtina. Going from one extreme to the other, but somehow it feels very natural? The first 400-500 pages describe such mundane happenings that you’re not sure what to think of it, but then you get to Alevtina’s part and it’s full of facts and science and you want to Google everything and learn about it.
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Also, found out online that the title comes from a poem by the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva - “However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
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Have you read Knausgaard? Tell me about it! Thank you @vintage for the copy!
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Over 700 pages, I’m exhausted, but in the best kind of way. Can you really say you found a new favourite author after reading just one book? I feel like you can because man, I’m ready to get into the six volumes of his autobiographical series like there’s no tomorrow.
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The plot is a rollercoaster of feelings and happenings. Syvert is a young man who’s unsure about his own ambitions and future. Barely back from his military service, he finds himself stuck at home with his brother when his mother needs to get medical help. In the middle of his confusing feelings towards his deceased father, Syvert finds a few letters in Russian that change his life. Now, the story turns to Alevtina and after 400-500 pages we’re finally in the middle of it all. Who is Alevtina and her connection to Syvert, I’ll let you find out later.
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The style of writing made me feel like I was not only part of the story, but part of the characters’ consciousness. Part of Syvert, part of Alevtina. Going from one extreme to the other, but somehow it feels very natural? The first 400-500 pages describe such mundane happenings that you’re not sure what to think of it, but then you get to Alevtina’s part and it’s full of facts and science and you want to Google everything and learn about it.
.
Also, found out online that the title comes from a poem by the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva - “However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
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Have you read Knausgaard? Tell me about it! Thank you @vintage for the copy!