�Is the novel important? Why and for whom?" Karl Ove Knausg�rd asks himself in this speech, delivered in London in October 2022. His answer is a complete defense of the novel as the only thing capable of capturing life as it is: as something always open, changing, traversed by multiple conflicting and contradictory energies. In dialogue with the ideas of D. H. Lawrence, Knut Hamsun and other authors, Knausg�rd achieves here an extraordinary piece of literary essay that can be read as a poetics at the same time, ...
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�Is the novel important? Why and for whom?" Karl Ove Knausg�rd asks himself in this speech, delivered in London in October 2022. His answer is a complete defense of the novel as the only thing capable of capturing life as it is: as something always open, changing, traversed by multiple conflicting and contradictory energies. In dialogue with the ideas of D. H. Lawrence, Knut Hamsun and other authors, Knausg�rd achieves here an extraordinary piece of literary essay that can be read as a poetics at the same time, capable of illuminating one of the most outstanding narrative projects of the last decades.
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