Almost ten years have passed since Karl Ove’s father drank himself to death. Vulnerable and assailed by doubts, he is now embarking on a new novel. With an uncanny eye for detail, Knausgaard breaks down his own life story into its elementary particles, reliving memories, reopening wounds, and examining with candor the turbulence and the epiphanies that emerge from his own experience of fatherhood, the fallout in the wake of his father’s death, and his visceral connection to music, art, and literature. Negotiating intimacy, love, and fear lie at the heart of his movements and mind as he moves from self- deprecation to self-absorption, from craving solitude to exposing an insatiable need for love and admiration, from alienation to harmony. Karl Ove’s dilemmas strike nerves that give us raw glimpses of our particular moment in history as we witness what happens to the sensitive and churning mind of a young man trying – as if his very life depended on it – to find his place in the disjointed world around him. This Proustian masterpiece opens a window into one of the most original minds writing today.

卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高（Karl Ove Knausgård）

1968年生于挪威奥斯陆。1998年以首部小说《出离世界》（Ute av verden）获得挪威文学评论奖，2004年第二部小说《万物皆有时》（En tid for alt）又获得北欧文学奖。2009年至2011年间，克瑙斯高出版了六卷本自传小说《我的奋斗》（Min Kamp），获得挪威最高文学奖项布拉哥文学奖。在挪威，每十个人就有一人读过《我的奋斗》。知名作家莉迪亚·戴维斯、扎迪·史密斯、杰弗里·尤金尼德斯、乔纳森·勒瑟姆等也表示读《我的奋斗》成瘾，迫不及待地一本接一本读下去。2015年9月，克瑙斯高获得德国《世界报》文学奖（Welt-Literaturpreis，2014年得主是村上春树）。另著有随笔集《在秋天》（Om høsten，2015年）。

译者简介

林后，生于成都，长在重庆，职大教师。1987年旅居挪威至今，从事双语教师多年，之后在奥斯陆人民大学任教十余年。现居家从事翻译和写作。已出版译作《挪威民间故事选》。