"Fifteen years ago, discussing the success of his six-volume autofictional work My Struggle on Norwegian radio, Karl Ove Knausgard said he felt as if he had actually sold my soul to the devil. My Struggle had become a runaway success in Norway a success that would subsequently be repeated across the world but the project provoked anger in some quarters for its portrayal of friends and family members. This was a work of art that came at a price."
"That experience lies at the root of Knausgard's latest novel, The School of Night, the fourth volume in his Morning Star sequence, in which his typical character studies and fine-grained attention to the minutiae of daily life are married to a compelling supernatural plot involving a mysterious star appearing in the sky and the dead returning to life. Volumes one and three, The Morning Star and The Third Realm, cycled between the same group of interconnected characters."
Karl Ove Knausgard felt as if he had sold his soul to the devil after My Struggle became a runaway success and provoked anger for its portrayal of friends and family. That Faustian experience informs The School of Night, the fourth volume of the Morning Star sequence. The novel blends close character studies and meticulous everyday detail with a supernatural plot about a mysterious star and the dead returning to life. The narrative moves back to 1985 London and follows Kristian Hadeland's art-school pursuit of fame, tracing the sacrifices he makes and his consequent rise and fall.
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