Knausgaard (Lunch with the FT - Lorien Kite)

© James Ferguson  

Over turbot and cigarette breaks, 
the Norwegian literary sensation talks about his autobiographical epic ‘My Struggle’

...But when Knausgaard finally arrives, he is somehow not who I was expecting at all. Stylishly dressed all in black and chatting graciously to the waiter as he is led over to our table, the tall 48-year-old displays none of the self-consciousness suggested by his work or even by his stage interviews, in which questions and answers are so often punctuated by long silences of intense cogitation...link



http://catalogplus.libraryweb.org/#section=resource&resourceid=210383827&currentIndex=2&view=fullDetailsDetailsTab
 

Schopenhauer primordial sin

  There is nothing more certain than the general truth that it is the grievous sin of the world which has produced the grievous suffering of...