"You can write a radical Norwegian or a……" — Karl Ove Knausgard
"You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought."
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Karl Ove Knausgard
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20 Quotes by Karl Ove Knausgard
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