BOOK REVIEW: KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, “AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER [OM HØSTEN, OM VINTEREN, OM VÅREN, OM SOMMEREN]”, LONDON, HARVILL SECKER, 2017 & 2018, 1.057 P.

Abstract

How does one measure a life and how to make sense of it? Is it chronological age, or rather the sum of our days morphed into experience?

A constant reminder of the passage of time and the cyclic patterns of our existence, the four seasons have, throughout the ages, been a recurring allegory for countless writers, artists and the like. One of these is Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose Seasons Quartet was greet­ed with wide international acclaim, although the six-volume autobiographical novel, My Struggle, seems to be the ‘magnum opus’ of his career so far.