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Published · transcript-backedKarl Ove Knausgård: belief
8 May 2019 Conversations with Tyler Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
“I think Dostoevsky was part of forming his identity as a painter — exactly what’s unfinished, exactly what’s raw.”
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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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…Edvard Munch — he stuck with Dostoevsky as an influence. Very much so. The day he died, in the afternoon the day he died, he read Dostoevsky, and then he died. So he just followed him throughout his life. I think Dostoevsky was part of forming his identity as a painter — exactly what’s unfinished, exactly what’s raw. Is The Scream a self-portrait of Munch? And is he wearing a mask or a death mask?…
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