Tag: Karl Ove Knausgaard

#Autumn #TropicofCancer #review and my #reading in August

Posted by | Published on August 27, 2017

I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close […] 

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My #reading: March 2016

Posted by | Published on March 26, 2016

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there were […] 

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June 2015: My Reading

Posted by | Published on June 30, 2015

“…by writing about himself, Knausgaard has really written about them, that reading ‘My Struggle’ is like opening someone else’s diary and finding your own secrets.” […] 

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Travelling Norse

Posted by | Published on October 19, 2014

It was a wonderful autumn day, cold and bright; as we drove inland from Bergen in the morning, frozen mist was lying over the fjord. […] 

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Orwell’s typewriter  →

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“I am just on the grisly job of typing out my novel. I can’t type much because it tires me too much to sit up at table, and I asked […] 

Orwell in Paris: Aunt Nellie  →

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George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-1950) died seventy years ago today, on the 21st January 1950. His favourite aunt, Nellie Limouzin (1870-1950), passed away five months later in tragically sad […] 

February 2015: My Reading  →

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There’s been a good variety of books completed this month including graphic novels, historical fiction, essays, memoirs, biographies, contemporary fiction, revolutionary pamphlets and plenty of history. Christopher Hitchens and Thomas […] 

Collecting Orwell: A Kind of Compulsion*  →

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*Originally published in George Orwell Studies There are few 20th century writers as collectable as George Orwell. Rare book auctions regularly fetch extraordinary prices, especially for his works published in the 1930s. […] 

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