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En Tid For Alt (2004)

by Karl Ove Knausgård(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Forlaget Oktober

review 1: When I finished the first section of the book I was oscillating between 3 or 4 stars. After finishing the Coda I was oscillating between 4 or 5 stars. It just brought everything into context of the book being a piece of fiction. Prior to the Coda I was looking for the narrator of "My Struggle 2:A Man in Love" to appear and doubting the actual narrator. Perhaps, I may have been better served if I read this prior to My Struggle.After reading the Coda my mind was set free and I was able to truly appreciate the Angel story that binds the book and the expanding of the the two or three sentence biblical passages remade into wonderful stories that stretch over 100's of pages.
review 2: I agree with many of the previous reviewers in thinking that this is truly an odd b... moreook. It's boring and completely compelling at the same time. You wonder what the point is in filling in improbable details around the biblical stories of Cain and Abel, Noah, etc. but you keep reading because he is a very good story teller. And strangest of all to me is where the author himself is coming from. The narrator appears to actually believe in the absolute truth of every word in the bible about angels and in the crazed writings of Bellori, but I kept questioning the author's commitment to that truth. It's as if the author has created a narrative voice that is somewhat deranged and not trustworthy. As I haven't read his supposed autobiographical novels, I don't know where the actual Karl Knausgaard fits. It's creates a rather disturbing background to the reading experience. less

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