![]() ![]() "Initially, Knausgård’s patented accretion of detail feels enriched with a new and welcome undertow: unnamed dread.He doesn't express emotions, or cause us to feel them, but notes them in passing, as though scanning items on a self-checkout." - Jon Day, Financial Times ![]() (.) Rather than being interested in the effects language can have, Knausgaard's concern is with the meanings it can bear and the realities it can make thinkable. Although the characters don't feel like caricatures, they don't really feel like fully realised individuals either: more like a collective Knausgaardian consciousness inhabiting nine different bodies. But one problem with The Morning Star is that everyone in it talks and thinks in very similar ways. (.) Ensemble novels such as this thrive on contrast, inviting us to consider how different people might understand and respond to a universal event. It is a bit like reading a Knausgaard novel on to which a Hollywood blockbuster has been unsuccessfully grafted. General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author ![]() Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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