/lit/ - Literature

>>10967347
My Struggle Volume 4. Comfy as fuck descriptions of teaching in a small northern Norwegian town, mainly with him drinking himself stupid and trying to get laid.

Runner up goes to Volume 5, which features him as a writing program student in a comfy college setting. Knausgaard made me love reading again DESU.

Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle Volume 4. You really want to see that fucker get laid.

Also Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, in that I seemed to have subconsciously modeled my life after the main character in that book.

knausgaard deserves the nobel prize. my struggle is an achievement on the order of tolstoy or proust.

>>10429616
Knausgaard.

>>10175465
karl
ove
knausgaard

my struggle volume 2 is as close to a perfect book as ill ever read

>>10057582
agreed. knausgaard unironically opened up my eyes to see that the world is a wonderful place.

also i enjoyed it in book 4 when he finally got laid. it was very cathartic

>>9800150
It's fantastic. I've read Vol 1-4 so far and am planning to read Vol 5 later this year after I finish Les Mis. His books are the definition of "comfy" to me. Thus far I'd say:

2 > 4 > 1 > 3

Although 2 and 4 are really close. 4 had such a great ending when he finally got laid and ended up fucking that girl while she was halfway out the tent and puking

>>9802932
See, to me the diatribes on being a father were some of the best parts because I had never really thought about what it means to be a father before that. Now I'm sort of interested in raising children. It seems like a novel experience and possibly the cure to existentialism.

>>9801525
Book 2 is the best in the series. I could reread the section where he goes to the coffee shop and zones out while reading Bros. K a million times. Not sure why it's so appealing, exactly, although I think because it somehow achieves total immersion.

>>9802983
Volume 3, Boyhood Island, is all about him growing up as a kid on a remote Norwegian island.

Min Kamp

> it's a young karl ove lusts after attractive norwegian blondes episode

>>9617351
Knausgaard

> 31
> SoCal
> My Struggle Volume 4

It's fantastic. Already way better than Vol 3 and potentially better than Vol 1. The opening pages of him riding on a bus to a comfy northern Norwegian town really tripped the old serotonin dispensers.

ask him how he feels about being the living embodiment of my deepest fantasies:

comfy norwegian boyhood, GETTING TO BONE sexy as fuck nordic women, literature education instead of fucking being a STEM cuck like me, immense writing talent, international acclaim, four children.

My brother (another writer, my main confidant) told me this would be more suited to a novel than a short story. What do you think:
“Quid rides?
Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.
Why do you laugh?
Change but the name, and the story is told of yourself.”
-Horace, Satires
I woke up one morning with a vague, shapeless pain inside of me. I took a benedryl and tried to forget about it, contenting myself with the pain of the cold shower instead. When I departed from the shower I still felt that inner sense of greyness, of emptiness and pain that greeted me when I awoke.
I am a student in my second year. If people ask me my major, I tell them that I am training to be a renewable energy entrepreneur. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of looking to the future, I look to the past. I am studying latin, the dead language. I am contented with the idea that it was the tongue of my forebears, but who knows what endless tsunami of human coitus fills the gulf between the noble Romans and my Italian grandparents.
I went to class, determined to ignore the pain unless it continued to fester and riddle my body with symptoms that were salient. And fester it did. During a lecture on Cicero, I felt the pain continue to kiss the insides of ribs and wreak havoc on my interior, leaving my love of Cicero on the roadside, replacing it with a vast tract of blackness inside of my mind.

>>9206378
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

>>9124659
my struggle volume 1

did knausgaard save literature by killing irony?

is his the voice that dfw foresaw?

what the fuck was the end of my struggle volume 3? why was there a tween orgy?

>>8980788
Book 2 is even better.

Currently halfway through book 3, which isn't as good as the first two but still pretty good. Lots of talk about shitting and exploring the woods.

me too. probably going to trunk this novel, even though i had been working on it for five years and was certain it would be my "big break."

personal rejections and comments about how they enjoyed it make the final sting of "but i'm going to pass" all the more painful. on to novel #3, i suppose, although the passion that infused #2 isn't quite there yet. i hope it shows up in editing.

When is Out of this World getting translated into English? I really want to read Knausgaard's debut.

>>8771497
is there a more aesthetic author?