Description
An eighteen-year-old Karl Ove Knausgård heads north to work as a teacher in a remote community, hoping distance from his family will finally make life feel freer and more his own. As his parents’ divorce settles in the background, he turns to drinking, bravado, and literary ambition—trying to live up to the writers who electrified him while wrestling with the humiliations and restlessness of adolescence. In this installment of his autobiographical cycle, Knausgård charts the messy, often unflattering process of becoming a writer: the hunger to be “big,” the desire to escape, and the painful self-awareness that follows every misstep. With Don Bartlett’s translation preserving Knausgård’s stark, confessional immediacy, the book explores identity, artistic formation, and the uneasy line between self-invention and self-exposure.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2015
560 pages
ISBN: 9781846557255
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Details
First Published
2015
Language
eng
Translation
From: nor
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgård.