The Observer names Book 3 as one of its Top 10 Books for Spring!
The Observer puts My Struggle: Book 3 on its Top 10 List for Spring, calling Knausgaard "one of the most vital writers working today."
Edmund White on MY KIND OF GIRL by Buddhadeva Bose
My Kind of Girl by Buddhadeva Bose (1908-74) is a charming Bengal quartet of tales, a sort of truncated Indian version of the Decameron. Four upper middle-class men, all professionals, are stranded in a cold train station waiting room all night; they
Great review of My Struggle: Book Three in the latest Spectator
The Spectator review of My Struggle: Book Three underlines the universality behind Knausgaard's latest volume and declares its narration has "an immediacy as astonishing as that of its two predecessors".
The Financial Times review of My Struggle: Book 3
Financial Times reviews My Struggle: Book Three as "one of the most anticipated books of the year (or decade)" and adds "there is no easy explanation".
Review of My Struggle: Book Four in The Evening Standard
Hermione Eyre reviews the fourth book in the My Struggle series in The Evening Standard, Feb 26, 2015
Review of My Struggle: Book Four in Daily Express
Charlotte Heathcote reviews the fourth book in the My Struggle series in the Daily Express.
Review of BLINDING in London Review of Books
Martin Riker has just reviewed Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding, translated by Sean Cotter, for the London Review of Books, as well as his previous book, Nostalgia (New Directions). Riker compares the two: Blinding can seem like a surprising next step after Nostalgia, whatever stylistic qualities the two books
Inside the Giant Eyeball of an Undefined Higher Being
by Martin Riker from the London Review of Books (20 March 2014) Blinding: Volume I by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter Archipelago, 464 pp, £15.99, October 2013, ISBN 978 1 935744 84 9 At the end of Mircea Cărtărescu’s collection Nostalgia (1993, translated into English in 2005) is a fantastical tale called ‘The Architect’, about
REVIEW: Quarterly Conversation on A Treatise on Shelling Beans
P.T Smith thoughtfully reviews Wiesław Myśliwski's A Treatise on Shelling Beans in Issue 35 of Quarterly Conversation. A man enters a house and asks to buy some beans, but we aren’t given his question, only the response: humble surprise from the narrator