Karl ove knausgaard out of the world

Out of the World

March 17, 2023
Nach über zwanzig Jahren wurde Knausgards Debüt auf Deutsch veröffentlicht. Warum nicht eher, wird mit der zunehmenden Popularität seiner autobiographischen Romane erklärt, und beim Debüt handelt es sich schließlich um ein fast 1000seitiges Werk. Ich würde es nicht wagen, den Roman zu empfehlen, zumindest nicht Menschen, die ich nicht kenne, oder andersherum – manchen würde ich ihn nicht ans Herz legen, weil ich sie kenne.

Es wird ja vor allem damit geworben, dass sich ein Lehrer in seine 13jährige Schülerin verliebt. Das war, als es '98 in Norwegen erschien, kein Problem. 20 Jahre später, als es in Schweden herauskam – SKANDAL! Es handelt sich hier jedoch nicht um einen Pädophilen, also das Gesamtpaket, sondern um einen jungen Mann, der ziemlich im Arsch ist und von einer Katastrophe in die nächste taumelt. Das macht unter anderem den Reiz des Romans aus, man liest ihn gewissermaßen in gekrümmter Haltung, weil man nicht fassen und ertragen kann, wie er sich immer wieder in die Scheiße reitet. (Sorry, language!)
Ich habe ein bisschen in den negativen Goodreadskommentaren rumgestöbert - langweilig, wirr, abschweifend, widerlich ... nichts davon h

Multilingual Wordsmiths, Part 6: Don Bartlett on Bringing Us Karl Ove Knausgaard



"You are originating when you translate; [...] you’re co-writing, you’re creating something in English from another language, it’s a creative act."





FIVE YEARS AGO, the translator Don Bartlett read the first volume of an emotionally wrenching, preternaturally detailed Norwegian autobiographical novel that had caused a stir in Norway, and indeed, across Scandinavia. Called
Min Kamp
(
My Struggle
), it ran to 3,600 pages — divided into six books — and was written by an author little-known (then) outside of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, named Karl Ove Knausgaard. The London editor Geoff Mulligan had asked Bartlett to take a look at the book to see if Knausgaard might have crossover potential for English readers; and when he finished volume one, Bartlett recalls, “I told him — it sounds a bit silly now — I told him I thought he was worth the risk.” He certainly was: in 2012, the release of the first volume of Knausgaard’s
My Struggle
in English, in Bartlett’s translation, set off a literary frenzy in the English-reading world that continues to this day. While continuing to translate o


Anyone with the slightest interest in literature- no, you know what,
everyone

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has heard of Knausgaard by now. The man behind the 6 volume, 3600 page, fictionalized autobiography; My Struggle (Min Kamp). The rockstar in literature, no less than 21st century Proust claimed by some (I have yet to read Proust, so I can make no such claim). Ute av Verden, Out of the World, from 1998 is his debut. And what a debut it is!

26 year old Henrik Vankel is working as a substitute teacher in a small town in Northern Norway when suddenly he finds himself in love with one of his students, 13 year old Miriam. Shame and fear eventually drives him out of the town, and down South, back to his roots. From there we are part of a journey where childhood, youth and mature age come together in deeply captivating ways. It is a momentous work, in sheer volume (700 pages is no minor debut); in ambition; and in storytelling.

At the center of this story is uncontrollable desire, paralyzing shame, longing, and a painful sense of isolation. The real force lies with Knausgaard’s remarkable ability to connect with, describe, and examine the mind, and all the emotional turmoil involved with merely b

Out of the World (Hardcover)







Out of the World
imagines the life, history, and strange future of a young teacher who becomes infatuated with one of his students. Karl Ove Knausgaard's formally innovative and philosophically-driven debut novel won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature on its release in 1998.


The first novel from world-renowned writer Karl Ove Knausgaard,
Out of the World
unfolds the life of a young Norwegian teacher with formal daring and exacting attention to the texture of existence. Henrik, a 26-year-old high school teacher in a remote village in northern Norway, becomes infatuated with one of his students, and eventually enters into a sexual relationship with her. He flees to Kristiansand, the city of his childhood, and the narrative pivots to the story of his parents' courtship and Henrik's own birth. Back in Kristiansand, Henrik relives painful memories of his school days, and in an ethereal dream, enters a futuristic parallel world, living out his life on a strange rig in the middle of the ocean. A uniquely inventive and masterfully written novel,
Out of the World
mines the deepest intricacy of human emotion.



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