The Abyss or Life Is Simple - Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion (Hardcover)

An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard's writings and our time. Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the same name as the author, in a world at once fully disillusioned and thoroughly enchanted. In 2015, a group of scholars began meeting to discuss the peculiarly religious qualities of My Struggle. Some were interested in Knausgaard's attention to explicitly religious subjects and artworks, others to what they saw as more diffuse attention to the religiousness of contemporary life. The group wondered what reading these textures of religion in these volumes might say about our times, about writing, and about themselves. The Abyss or Life Is Simple is the culmination of this collective endeavor-a collection of interlocking essays on ritual, beauty, and the end of the world.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2022
Authors:	Courtney Bender • Jeremy Biles • Liane Carlson • Joshua Dubler • Hannah C. Garvey • M Cooper Harriss • Winnifred Fallers Sullivan • Erik Thorstensen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-82132-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General
LSN:	0-226-82132-3
Barcode:	9780226821320

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