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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.
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.
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