Recovering yourself, recovering the world (about Karl Ove Knausgård's fighting) Cover Image

Odzyskiwanie siebie, odzyskiwanie świata (o walkach Karla Ovego Knausgårda)
Recovering yourself, recovering the world (about Karl Ove Knausgård's fighting)

Author(s): Michał Kopczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Karl Ove Knausgård; Moja walka (Min Kamp); powieść XX wieku; powieść XXI wieku; literatura norweska; autobiografia

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article analyses the first three novels from Karl Ove Knausgård’s cycle My Struggle (Min Kamp). The author focuses mainly on the identity of the hero-narrator and on the critical views on contemporary culture presented in the novels. The author sees the real value of the novels in the fresh approach to the narrative forms, the construction of the first-person narrator, the re-evaluation of reality and in the ethical elements of language. The author also stresses the vitalism demonstrated by the writer. The author singles out the key formal features of this prose and confronts them with the twentieth century literary tradition as well as with contemporary culture.

  • Issue Year: 12/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 451-459
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish