Knausgaard in the NY Times

Karl Ove Knausgaard: By the Book

 











Credit Illustration by Jillian Tamaki

...What’s the last book to make you laugh?

Thomas Bernhard’s “My Prizes.” I read it recently at a cafe, and I was laughing out loud countless times — and I hardly ever laugh. It is an incredible funny book. The only other book I had laughed as much at was Céline’s “Death on the Installment Plan.” I don´t know why I find their escalating misanthropy so funny, but maybe it is because they are right, and if they are right, the only thing you really can do about it is to laugh...link

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