Some rain must fall / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.
Language: English Original language: Norwegian Series: My struggle. 5 | Knausgård, Karl Ove, Min kamp. 5. English. ; Publication details: London : Harvill Secker, 2016.Description: 663 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781846558276 (hbk.)
- 9781846558283 (pbk.)
- Min kamp femte bok. English
- 839.8238 23
- PT8951.21.N38 M5613 2016
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | KNA | My Struggle Bk.5 | Available | 064607 |
Originally published in Norwegian as: Min kamp femte bok. Oslo : Folaget Oktober, 2010.
At twenty, Karl Ove moves to Bergen. As the youngest student to be admitted to the prestigious Writing Academy, he arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and cliched, and his social efforts are a dismal failure. Awkward in company and hopeless with women, he drowns his shame in drink and rock music. Then, little by little, things take a brighter turn. He falls in love, gives up writing in favour of the steady rewards of literary criticism, and the beginnings of an adult life take shape. That is, until his self-destructive binges and the irresistible lure of the writer's struggle pull him back.
Translated from the Norwegian.