The Abyss or Life Is Simple

Liane Carlson, M. Cooper Harriss, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Joshua Dubler, Courtney Bender, Jeremy Biles, Erik Thorstensen, Hannah C. Garvey

ISBN 10: 0226821323 / ISBN 13: 9780226821320

Edité par The University of Chicago Press, US, 2022

A propos de cet article

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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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Abyss or Life Is Simple
• Éditeur: The University of Chicago Press, US
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226821323
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226821320
• Reliure: Hardback
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 454 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Courtney Bender is professor of religion at Columbia University and author of Heaven's Kitchen: Living with Religion at God's Love We Deliver, also published by the University of Chicago Press.