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1) Winter
Author
Series
Four seasons encyclopedia volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays--to name just a handful of his subjects. He fills these oh-so-familiar objects and ideas with new meaning, taking nothing for granted or as given. New life is on the...
2) Spring
Author
Series
Four seasons encyclopedia volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"You don't know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don't know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don't know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don't know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in your chest, day and night, day and night, day and night. So begins Spring, the recommencement of Knausgaard's fantastic and spellbinding literary project of assembling a personal encyclopedia of the world addressed directly to his newly born...
3) Inadvertent
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives.
4) Summer
Author
Series
Four seasons encyclopedia volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer" --
5) Autumn
Author
Series
Four seasons encyclopedia volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
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