Knausgaard and the New Death of the Symbolic

”Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens there, not what actions are played out there, but the there itself. There, that is writing’s location and aim. But how to get there?” (Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle 1). Using photo...

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Main Author:	Veljko Žvan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Center for Philosophy of Media and Media Research 2018-05-01
Series:	In Medias Res
Subjects:	Knausgard symbolic houellebecq literature art diary
Online Access:	http://www.centar-fm.org/inmediasres/images/pdf/12/V.%20Zvan,%20Knausgard%20i%20nova%20smrt%20simbolickog.pdf

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spelling	doaj-c8ffe25fe45a4ac98991b50ab0ea64822020-11-25T03:13:24ZengCenter for Philosophy of Media and Media ResearchIn Medias Res1848-63042018-05-0171219351940Knausgaard and the New Death of the SymbolicVeljko Žvan0Design Study, Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb”Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens there, not what actions are played out there, but the there itself. There, that is writing’s location and aim. But how to get there?” (Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle 1). Using photographic memory the author has spread his life over three thousand five hundred pages. Rude, gloomy, hard, mostly unbearable and hideous reality without any symbolic value kills hope for possible recovery right from the very beginning. Is it possible for us to understand better, by reading Knausgaard’s books (as well as Houellebecque’s and Franzen’s, for example), the inhumane reality (market and media oriented, above all) that apparently has given up itself and is not able to create higher values, not even artistically. And that is something we have been used to reading classic, even more recent literature?http://www.centar-fm.org/inmediasres/images/pdf/12/V.%20Zvan,%20Knausgard%20i%20nova%20smrt%20simbolickog.pdfKnausgardsymbolichouellebecqliteratureartdiary
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Knausgaard and the New Death of the Symbolic

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