Deze serie duikt in de essentie van het dagelijks leven door de ogen van een liefhebbende ouder. Het verkent de schoonheid en verwondering van de wereld om ons heen met tedere observaties. Elk deel biedt een intiem perspectief op het leven, vol lessen en genegenheid. Het is een viering van eenvoud en de diepe band tussen ouder en kind.
Karl Ove en zijn vrouw Linda staan op het punt een vierde kind te krijgen. Het wordt een meisje, ze zal Anne heten. In drie brieven aan zijn ongeboren dochter vertelt Karl Ove haar hoe robuust het leven is, en hoe mooi. Deze brieven wisselt hij af met korte, persoonlijke teksten over de meest uiteenlopende onderwerpen; van kauwgum, vingers en thermosflessen tot bloed, bladeren en eenzaamheid. Samen vormen deze teksten Annes handleiding voor de wereld. Herfst is het eerste deel van Vier seizoenen.
From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful
collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to
Knausgaard's unborn daughterIn Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard
as the birth of his daughter draws near.
"Spring is a deeply moving, lyrical, and inspiring memoir about family, our everyday lives, our joys and struggles, set over the course of a single day. 'Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for.' In Spring, third volume of the Seasons quartet, we follow Karl Ove and his three-month-old daughter, Anna, over the course of one day in April, from sunrise to sunset: a day filled with routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness. In Spring, one of the world's most beguiling literary artists celebrates the greatness of the everyday--the beautiful and the painful--and the big things that hide behind the smallest events in all our lives. Whereas the first two books in Knausgaard's sublime Seasons series are comprised of short texts--sightings of things and places, associations and reflections related to nature and the material world--Spring is a narrative memoir that reads like a short novel. Emotionally captivating, it is the most accessible of all his books for new Karl Ove readers keen to enter into his writing, while also deeply moving for his devoted readers. This beautiful edition is illustrated by the acclaimed Swedish artist Anna Bjerger."--
Returning to the short prose of Autumn and Winter, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about summer nights to circuses, lawn sprinklers to Mixmasters. But he also writes a diary, where the small events in a family's life are recorded against a backdrop of thoughts, memories, longings and experiences of art and literature, in an intense pursuit of the meaning of moments as they pass us by.
