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Norway's best used to be Hamsun and Ibsen, musician and artist were Grieg and Munch. What went so right?

>>10717546
Knausgård's writing is Eragon-tier bad. Ute av verden is probably one of the worst novels I've ever read.

>>10717546
I hope this means he's writing a novel set in Russia

>>10717546
>Published in 1852, “A Sportsman’s Sketches” is a collection of simple stories about a hunter’s encounters as he wanders around the woods. There is nothing here of Dostoyevsky’s psychological and emotional savagery and depth, nor of Tolstoy’s epic complexity or his ability to encapsulate an entire society with a few strokes; these stories are in all ways modest, aimless even. A man strolls through the forest with a shotgun over his shoulder, he exchanges a few words with someone he happens to meet, possibly shoots a bird or two, possibly spends the night in a barn on the way home — and that’s it, that’s the whole story.
That's the point
>yfw

>Suddenly I realized that I had to speak to her, that the museum, the trees and the old books, the things I had been focusing on so far, represented nothing but my own ideas about the country I was visiting. What on earth was I getting myself into? My whole view of Russia was based on myths and romantic imagery. What kind of hubris made me believe that I would be capable of saying something about the real Russia after a nine-day trip through one tiny corner of this vast country? It was like describing a bucket of water in order to say something about the ocean.
Fellas, I'm not trying to be funny, this is John Green tier.

>>10717546
jesus christ he looks so bad now