| © 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