Re:Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes “My Struggle”
by jljljl on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:12PM
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This is a lossy compression: You've removed the distinction that the immersion in the author's psyche is distinct or remarkable, that the novel embraces tedious experience, and that it's autobiographical.
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An experimental novel immersed in its author's psyche, in which elegance is abandoned and the act of shitting is evoked, at one point, as “AAAAAAGGGHHH!!"
I don't want to sit down and have to parse through a book review, I just want to read it.