Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. The My Struggle cycle of novels has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it has appeared.
“[Knausgaard] brings to life—even celebrates—the complex and
ambivalent give-and-take between men, between women and between men
and women. These relationships, full of misunderstandings,
concessions and reconciliations, feel real, without agenda . . .
The Wolves of Eternity, like some 19th-century Russian novel,
wrestles with the great contraries: the materialist view and the
religious, the world as cosmic accident versus embodiment of some
radiant intention. Is this world shot through with meaning or not?
Has there ever been a better time to ask?” —Sven Birkerts, The New
York Times Book Review
“Knausgaard is back, with a compulsively readable new novel .
. . The good news, at least for hardcore Knausgaard fans, is
that the second book in [his] series, The Wolves of Eternity, poses
more questions than it answers . . . Knausgaard once
again proves a thoughtful and wide reader. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and
Rilke are referenced alongside Marina Tsvetaeva, the poet who gives
the book its title, and Nikolai Fyodorov, a pre-revolutionary
Russian futurist who believed that all human effort should be
directed toward resurrecting the dead . . . Knausgaard
remains one of the great chroniclers of the moment-by-moment
experience of life. Alevtina will be thinking deep thoughts about
evolution one minute and contemplating meatballs the next.
Knausgaard is acutely in tune with the simultaneity of life’s
majesty and banality . . . Although the final shape of
Knausgaard’s latest enterprise is not yet visible, there’s famously
no smoke without wildfires. It’s likely something wicked this way
comes.” —The Washington Post
“Not a conventional sequel . . . Revives fiction as an inquiry into
the cosmos, re-enchanting the latter with those beguiling secrets
science had stolen from it.” —The Guardian
“The range of subjects The Wolves of Eternity explores is
fascinating, but the elements of the novel that gave me the most
joy were also the most prosaic . . . Perhaps I’ll be in the
minority to say it, but I wanted The Wolves of Eternity to be even
longer.” —The Sunday Times
“There’s a greater power, I reckon, to be gleaned in the
ordinariness of things . . . The less The Wolves of Eternity novel
is about, the more it has to say.” —The Telegraph
“Knausgaard is a master . . . guiding us inexorably and
irresistibly towards the next installment.” —Financial Times
“A marvelous and mysterious novel that will stay with readers long
after Syvert and Alevtina take their leave of one another.” —Shelf
Awareness
“A curiously affecting tale about science and spirit . . .” —Kirkus
Reviews
“Inspired . . . Knausgaard’s book doesn’t shy away from big
questions about the substance of his characters’ inner lives . . .
[he] captures the spirit of a Russian novel.” —Publishers
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