CONVERSATIONS WITH KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD: LITERARY CONVERSATIONS SERIES - Scarce Fine Copy of The True First Hardcover Edition/First Printing

Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Author); Blaisdell, Bob (Editor) & Various Journalist/Contributors

ISBN 10: 1496847695 / ISBN 13: 9781496847690

Edité par Jackson, MS: University Press Of Mississippi, 2023, 2023

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1st Printing. 345 pages. Published in 2023. The author's collection of interviews. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited print run of 500 copies as a hardcover original by a University Press as part of the now-legendary "Literary Conversations" Series. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents, in the most collectible format possible, "Conversations With Karl Ove Knausgaard". A representative - and dazzling - selection of interviews conducted by various writers, journalists, and scholars with the author. Gives a rich, complex, and lively overview of both the life and mind of one of contemporary literature's most exciting and important writers. Presented in chronological order, the interviews cumulatively amount to an absorbing account of one of the greatest literary journeys of our time, which is the explicit intention of the publisher with each writer who is included in the Series. "Twenty-two interviews, each conducted during the ten-year span in which Knausgaard's literary prowess gained worldwide recognition. Knausgaard is both a daring writer and a daring interviewee. He grounds his observations in the ordinary aspects of the world around him which, he insists, is the same world in front of most of his readers. He regards his appearances in newspapers, magazines, and literary festivals as a performance, where he plays himself. While that role may differ from his inner life, it is consistent with the role he plays in his autobiographical novels. Knausgaard discusses his work, aspects of his personal life, and his writing routines and practices in marvelous detail. Remarkable for his candor and directness, Knausgaard delivers the same variety and number of surprises in these interviews as he does in his most thrilling books" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Karl Ove Knausgaard collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is one of the most beautiful copies we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online are, for the most part, P-O-D or the Softcover Edition, both of which have NO collectible value. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD "INADVERTENT" AND "IN THE LAND OF CYCLOPS" TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1496847695.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: CONVERSATIONS WITH KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD: LITERARY CONVERSATIONS SERIES - Scarce Fine Copy of The True First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
• Éditeur: Jackson, MS: University Press Of Mississippi, 2023
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1496847695
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781496847690
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: None, As Issued
• Signé: no

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Synopsis

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, when his debut novel won the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. His fame continued to grow with the publication of his six-volume autobiographical series Min Kamp, or My Struggle. Translated into English in 2012, the critically acclaimed and controversial series garnered global attention, as did its author. Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard is a collection of twenty-two interviews, each conducted during the ten-year span in which Knausgaard’s literary prowess gained worldwide recognition.

Knausgaard is both a daring writer and a daring interviewee. He grounds his observations in the ordinary aspects of the world around him, which, he insists, is the same world in front of most of his readers. He regards his appearances in newspapers, magazines, and literary festivals as “a performance,” where he plays himself. While that role may differ from his inner life, it is consistent with the role he plays in his autobiographical novels. Fans of Knausgaard will easily recognize this public persona, an embodiment of the protagonist, husband, and father featured in My Struggle and in the Seasons quartet.

Knausgaard discusses his work, aspects of his personal life, and his writing routines and practices in marvelous detail. He comments on literary and artistic world classics and on international contemporary authors. A bilingual speaker, he is accustomed to appearing before the press and in front of audiences in his roles as a famous author and as the publisher and cofounder of the publishing house Pelikanen (Pelican). Remarkable for his candor and directness, Knausgaard delivers the same variety and number of surprises in these interviews as he does in his most thrilling books.

À propos de l'auteur

Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. He is author of Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine; Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius; and Well, Mr. Mudrick Said . . . A Memoir. In addition, he is editor of more than three dozen literary anthologies.