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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2020  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW: KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER [OM HØSTEN, OM VINTEREN, OM VÅREN, OM SOMMEREN], LONDON, HARVILL SECKER, 2017 & 2018, 1.057 P..

Authors:  GABRIELA MOCAN.
 
       
         
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Published Online: 2020-09-30
Published Print: 2020-09-30
pp. 365-367
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How does one measure a life and how to make sense of it? Is it chronological age, or rather the sum of our days morphed into experience? A constant reminder of the passage of time and the cyclic patterns of our existence, the four seasons have, throughout the ages, been a recurring allegory for countless writers, artists and the like. One of these is Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose Seasons Quartet was greeted with wide international acclaim, although the six-volume autobiographical novel, My Struggle, seems to be the magnum opus of his career so far.
 
         
     
         
         
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