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It's his first published novel and never got an official English translation but I found some translation on archive.org lol And yeah The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity are both excellent
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Blurred posted:Last year I had the urge to get back into reading 'real literature' after several years of reading almost exclusively non-fiction books. I have two young children which makes it difficult to find any consistent, quiet reading time, which really discouraged me from getting stuck into any long, dense novels. So I decided to buy the Penguin Little Black Classics box-set, because each of the books are only ~50 pages long, and I thought it would be a great chance to expose myself to authors I've never read before without needing to invest too much of my (rare) free-time. Thank you very much for this! Inspired me to order the modern box set. Mel Mudkiper posted:The Morning Star What do you like about it? I'm in the middle and finding it dreary and dull. The elaborate description of mundane things has it's charm but it runs out quick.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:thats how we transcribe the sound in English "aa" is also how we wrote the sound in norwegian up until between 1917 and 1938
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Gleisdreieck posted:Thank you very much for this! Inspired me to order the modern box set. His characters come off as deeply human and his eye for making the mundane seem poetic
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ulvir posted:"aa" is also how we wrote the sound in norwegian up until between 1917 and 1938 Weird did something happen during that time This is a joke btw
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Weird did something happen during that time phoneposting, so you almost baited me to elaborate
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ulvir posted:phoneposting, so you almost baited me to elaborate its been so long I forgot how to do spoilers on here
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Feb 13, 2024 18:07
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Mel Mudkiper posted:His characters come off as deeply human and his eye for making the mundane seem poetic He's annoyingly good. My Struggle is mesmerizing.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:His characters come off as deeply human and his eye for making the mundane seem poetic Jon Fosse is far superior in this regard, just by the by
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Knausgård is fascinating because he is basically the archetype of a sloppy writer but is so immensely instinctually gifted that he makes it work. The first 70-100 pages of every book of his I've read are an awkward slog and then at some point he catches the wind and you're off.
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Nitevision posted:Knausgård is fascinating because he is basically the archetype of a sloppy writer but is so immensely instinctually gifted that he makes it work. The first 70-100 pages of every book of his I've read are an awkward slog and then at some point he catches the wind and you're off. Like I said, it's loving annoying. He's one of very few people I've ever read, as someone who writes and is good at it, where I think "why am I bothering to even try" There's a point early in volume 1 (I think) of My Struggle where a writer friend of his says "well you could write about taking a poo poo and it would sell". Or something like that. Exactly right.
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I remember seeing him at a writers festival shortly after book 2 or 3 came out and he was getting hugely popular, and someone asked why he began book 1 with this section about the heart. His answer was something like "so people know I can write before they get to the rest"
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thehoodie posted:I remember seeing him at a writers festival shortly after book 2 or 3 came out and he was getting hugely popular, and someone asked why he began book 1 with this section about the heart. His answer was something like "so people know I can write before they get to the rest" I read the whole thing. And hell, I might even read it again later in life. It's frustratingly good. You are like "why am I reading about this dude's family life" and then suddenly it's seven hundred pages later and he's talking about something profound and you realize you've been had
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Feb 15, 2024 01:14
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This all sounds very boring
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Gaius Marius posted:This all sounds very boring Go on. Read the first chapter of Volume 1 of My Struggle.
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I've only read book 1 and it is very good. But if I'm going to read a 6+ book series it is going to be
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mdemone posted:Go on. Read the first chapter of Volume 1 of My Struggle. this unironically.
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any recommendations for specifically nordic authors? I hadn't heard of Fosse until he was mentioned and Septology looks fascinating, albeit nothing I would want to commit to right now. My knowledge of Nordic writers doesn't go very far beyond Hamsun and Knausgaard really.
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hanne orstavik, the pastor and love are both extremely good
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Feb 15, 2024 05:39
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Halldor Laxness is a good icelandic writer. for norwegian authors,Tarjei Vesaas is a must if you also like Jon Fosse, obviously Henrik Ibsen, his later plays are party great. Dag Solstad is both funny and good, so definitely check him out. beyond that i’m struggling a bit, because I don’t exactly know what’s translated or not. my overview of swedish literature is shockingly poor compared to Danish, but you could give Kerstin Ekman a try, Blackwater does a similar thing to Drive your plow (…) by Tokarczuk, where it’s a crime fiction on the surface only, but is actually more about the people
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Herman Bang is fantastic, also really liked the few Henrik Pontoppidan short stories I've read (both Danes) I'm not so familiar with Swedish authors either, but I remember liking P.C. Jersild.
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Doktor Glas was a good swedish book I read I can also recommend Havoc by the danish Tom Kristensen. it’s an almost horrifying read about a journalist/editor who decides to completely ruin his life with alcohol
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Feb 15, 2024 09:19
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Svend Åge Madsen! See if you can track down a copy of Virtue & Vice in the Middle Time, the only work of his that has been translated to English and one of my favorite books ever. It's basically the Count of Monte Christo, but set in 1970's magical realist Denmark as imagined by a fictitious author writing a thousand years in the future, where the 20th century has become this ill-defined age of wonders known as The Middle Time. Unfortunately, the hardcover is out of print, and there is no e-book edition.
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Per Petterson
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Tosk posted:any recommendations for specifically nordic authors? I hadn't heard of Fosse until he was mentioned and Septology looks fascinating, albeit nothing I would want to commit to right now. My knowledge of Nordic writers doesn't go very far beyond Hamsun and Knausgaard really. Tove Ditlevsen
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Inger Christensen, a danish poet, has also become something of a thread favourite. Alphabet is going to blow you away guaranteed. her poetry is so insanely loving good
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one day I will ascend as an aesthete and actually read poetry
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I read book 1 of My Struggle and I thought it was pretty good but I did not feel compelled to read all the other ones. It's me, the Knausgård heathen
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ulvir posted:Inger Christensen, a danish poet, has also become something of a thread favourite. Alphabet is going to blow you away guaranteed. her poetry is so insanely loving good can confirm. cant think of any other longform poem that i immediately started reading again when i got to the end like this one, so good
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Volcano posted:I read book 1 of My Struggle and I thought it was pretty good but I did not feel compelled to read all the other ones. It's me, the Knausgård heathen Give Vol. 6 a try. It's a reflection on what happened to him and his family life after the early volumes became huge hits. And then suddenly he breaks off into a 350-page essay on Hitler
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Tosk posted:any recommendations for specifically nordic authors? I hadn't heard of Fosse until he was mentioned and Septology looks fascinating, albeit nothing I would want to commit to right now. My knowledge of Nordic writers doesn't go very far beyond Hamsun and Knausgaard really. Probably a 101-level answer for the actual nords here but I was surprised by how much I loved The Wreath by Sigrid Undset (trans. Nunnally). Seems like a book that genuinely achieved timelessness. Would love to read more of her
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Isnt Stoner like the pre-eminent sad professor fucks his students book that most people joke all American literary fiction is now that i've finished it, this isn't really that. he is the sad professor, but he only ever has one single affair, and it's with a member of faculty
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Isnt Stoner like the pre-eminent sad professor fucks his students book that most people joke all American literary fiction is No, that's Don Delillo. New Yorker style litfic peaked with The Night the Bed Fell on Grandfather
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I can smell Jonathan Franzen talk, and I just want to say right now that I won't have it.
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Did you know he was friends with DFW?
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never have and never will read that guy
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Just finished journey round my skull by frigyes karinthy. His autobiographical account of discovering he has a brain tumor and the process of its removal. Mostly he is in a state of bewilderment. Very funny
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ulvir posted:now that i've finished it, this isn't really that. he is the sad professor, but he only ever has one single affair, and it's with a member of faculty u liked?
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Gaius Marius posted:Did you know he was friends with DFW? If that's a veiled criticism, I won't hear it, and I won't respond to it.
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The corrections remains really good in a way that feels almost like a cosmic joke
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