Four seasons encyclopedia
Author
1) Autumn
Author
Series
Four seasons encyclopedia volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
224 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
2) Winter
Author
Series
Four seasons encyclopedia volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
254 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays--to name just a handful of his subjects. He fills these oh-so-familiar objects and ideas with new meaning, taking nothing for granted or as given. New life is on the...
3) Spring
Author
Series
Four seasons encyclopedia volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
182 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"You don't know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don't know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don't know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don't know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in your chest, day and night, day and night, day and night. So begins Spring, the recommencement of Knausgaard's fantastic and spellbinding literary project of assembling a personal encyclopedia of the world addressed directly to his newly born...
4) Summer
Author
Series
Four seasons encyclopedia volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
401 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer 2 June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four hours. What you will dream of tonight, no one will ever know. Even if you were to remember it when you wake up, you wouldn't have a language in which to communicate...