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Published · transcript-backedKarl Ove Knausgård: evaluation
8 May 2019 Conversations with Tyler Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
“I think so much writing is done out of a feeling of not belonging. If you read Knut Hamsun, he was a Nazi.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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- 8 May 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…So many great Norwegian writers — Ibsen, Sigrid Undset, Knut Hamsun — there’s nationalism in their work. Yet today, liberals tend to think of nationalism as an unspeakable evil of sorts. How do we square this with the evolution of Norwegian writing? And if one thinks of your own career, arguably it’s your extreme popularity in Norway at first that drove your later fame. What’s the connection of your own work to Norwegian nationalism? Are you the first non-nationalist great Norwegian writer? Is that plausible? Or is there some deeper connection? I think so much writing is done out of a feeling of not belonging. If you read Knut Hamsun, he was a Nazi. I mean, he was a full-blooded Nazi. We have to be honest about that. His best book might be his Nazi book, right? He wrote it when he was what, 90?…
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