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Publication
Penguin Press (2018), Edition: 1st Edition, 272 pages
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 horizon, but the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return, and so a contradictory melancholy inflects his gaze."--Page [4] of cover.
User reviews
LibraryThing member jphamilton
Here we have Knausgaard's second, one for each season, and I'm still totally captivated by almost all of these short pieces on things and concepts of his everyday world. The books contain his essays in which he is explaining the world to his unborn − well, she was born while he was writing this
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volume − and I love them. Some of the subjects seem a little lame, but his mind works in ways that rarely disappoint me. There are some authors that you trust so much that you just put yourself in their hands and follow then wherever they go, Karl Ove has my trust many times over. Show Less
LibraryThing member P1g5purt
Evidence that Knausgaard is a fine "noticer of things" but sometimes his forensic detail overwhelms rather than informs.
LibraryThing member bobbieharv
I was very disappointed by Autumn, but with Winter my favorite author redeemed himself. The best essays still are the personal ones (and I'm still waiting what seems like forever for the last volume of My Struggle), but most of the others seemed less dry. Can't wait to read Spring, which just came
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LibraryThing member rmagahiz
Short little essays and a couple of letters addressed to his daughter who was in the process of preparing for her birth musing on all sorts of little issues one encounters in life, people the author knows, and philosophical disquisitions on matters great and small. This is my first encounter with
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Knausgaard and I find his style reassuring, even when he touches on subjects which an edge. He touches on life and death but it is all basically optimistic, wry rather than rueful. I am inclined to pick up the volume which precedes this one in his "Seasons" series and might then consider whether to tackle his major series of books "My Struggle." Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2015
Physical description
272 p.; 5.44 inches
ISBN
0399563334 / 9780399563331