The Morning Star
by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
Penguin, 666 pp., $19.00 (paper)
The Wolves of Eternity
by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
Penguin, 791 pp., $22.00 (paper)
The Third Realm
by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aiken.
Penguin Press, 493 pp., $32.00
The novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard became famous for paying extraordinarily close attention to the texture of everyday experience, yet he has always been attuned to what might lie beyond it. His first novel, Ute av verden (Out of the World, 1998), was about angels. In A Man in Love (2009), the second volume of his autobiographical opus My Struggle, he described the christening of his first daughter, Vanja. After the ceremony the…
