In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays
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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ series broke new ground in fiction. ‘In the Land of the Cyclops’ is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writing on everything from his intense and intensely personal readings of literature, philosophy, and art, to the limits on privacy, how we view ourselves and the world, and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.
In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first collection of essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction.
Here, Knausgaard discusses Madame Bovary, the Northern Lights, Ingmar Bergman, and the work of an array of writers and visual artists, including Knut Hamsun, Michel Houellebecq, Anselm Kiefer and Cindy Sherman.
These essays beautifully capture Knausgaard’s ability to mediate between the deeply personal and the universal, demonstrating his trademark self-scrutiny and his deep longing to authentically see, understand, and experience the world.
‘Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive’ New York Times
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