“The Morning Star” becomes, in other words, a somewhat programmatic novel of ideas. Scatman Crothers would show up so that he and Jack could talk about the essential nature of isolation for a few hundred pages. He and Wendy and Danny would see demented things out the window, and occasionally a screaming lunatic would pound on the basement door. If this book were “The Shining,” Jack Torrance would finish his novel. Although there are gross-outs by the end - the members of a death-metal band are skinned by something worse than critics - Knausgaard never goes all in on his scenario. He adds these details slowly, perhaps too slowly. To this prosaic world, the author begins to stitch in aspects of horror. Knausgaard is a master of this sort of scattered attack. Ray Bradbury said one way to begin writing a short story or poem is to make a list of 10 things you hate and start tearing them down. His people are, enjoyably, realistically annoyed a good deal of the time. There are a lot of bad fathers and health problems and relationships in decline. This is a novel about people in distress, even before that shining new eye opens in the sky. Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose new novel is “The Morning Star.” Credit.
#Parable of the patch and wine skins in scripture series
(Turid is among those names, like Shakespeare’s Titus, for which it is crucial, when spelling, not to omit the second vowel.)Īdmirers of the six-book “My Struggle” series - I’m among them, with reservations about the final volume - will want to know: Does “The Morning Star” cast the same sort of spell those novels did? The answer, for a long time, is yes. There’s Jostein, a lecherous, shambolic, reeling arts journalist, and his wife, Turid, a nurse, as Knausgaard once was, at a psychiatric hospital. There’s Kathrine, a priest and a translator of the Bible who is tempted to smash her dull marriage, and Iselin, a once-promising student now working in a convenience store.
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