01 / recommendation
Likes Smiles of a Summer Night.
“I like Smiles of a Summer Night very much, the Mozartian feel, the Shakespeare connection.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
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02 / belief
I think he’s a master, really a master, and an author I’ve learned a lot from, not in ways of telling a story, but what the story tells you about the world.
“I think he’s a master, really a master, and an author I’ve learned a lot from, not in ways of telling a story, but what the story tells you about the world.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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03 / belief
I think Dostoevsky was part of forming his identity as a painter — exactly what’s unfinished, exactly what’s raw.
“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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04 / evaluation
I think so much writing is done out of a feeling of not belonging. If you read Knut Hamsun, he was a Nazi.
“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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- Conversations with Tyler
05 / evaluation
There, he’s a Nazi. And that’s what a teacher can do, is to get you so close to these things that nationalism just disappears because they don’t exist on that particular level.
“There, he’s a Nazi. And that’s what a teacher can do, is to get you so close to these things that nationalism just disappears because they don’t exist on that particular level.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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06 / preference
If you can’t write, then you have to start right out from that fact. I think that’s the best advice I ever got — to accept everything that happens.
“If you can’t write, then you have to start right out from that fact. I think that’s the best advice I ever got — to accept everything that happens.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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07 / preference
All his characters just appear, and then something happens with them, but there’s no past. I found that incredibly intriguing just because he became the Nazi.
“All his characters just appear, and then something happens with them, but there’s no past. I found that incredibly intriguing just because he became the Nazi.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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08 / preference
I love Persona, and I do actually — even though I know Lars von Trier hates it, I do like Fanny and Alexander also.
“I love Persona, and I do actually — even though I know Lars von Trier hates it, I do like Fanny and Alexander also.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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09 / preference
I really hate it when a book is done because then I know it’ll take a few years before I will get into something else.
“I really hate it when a book is done because then I know it’ll take a few years before I will get into something else.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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10 / preference
I’ve always been interested in the physicality of man, matter, the brain itself, the physicality of the brain, the way we are animals, the way we eat, and the way we take the world in, and the primitiveness of us.
“I’ve always been interested in the physicality of man, matter, the brain itself, the physicality of the brain, the way we are animals, the way we eat, and the way we take the world in, and the primitiveness of us.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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11 / preference
And Calvino, I love. The Baron in the Trees — what it’s called — is one of my favorite books.
“And Calvino, I love. The Baron in the Trees — what it’s called — is one of my favorite books.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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12 / evaluation
For Munch, it was very important to give access directly to pain and to distorted vision of the world, and to give a more true account of how it is to be, I think he wanted to do.
“For Munch, it was very important to give access directly to pain and to distorted vision of the world, and to give a more true account of how it is to be, I think he wanted to do.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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13 / evaluation
I’m discussing him and his influence in book six, actually, because he is a writer I absolutely admire, and I think my writing doesn’t reach up to his knees, [laughs] his writing’s knees.
“I’m discussing him and his influence in book six, actually, because he is a writer I absolutely admire, and I think my writing doesn’t reach up to his knees, [laughs] his writing’s knees.”
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- Karl Ove Knausgård
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- Conversations with Tyler