tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post8593920617957026899..comments2024-02-27T10:53:04.581+01:00Comments on paperpools: a skilful negligenceHelen DeWitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-70998412555140080242012-08-17T21:44:36.833+00:002012-08-17T21:44:36.833+00:00Karl Ove Knausgaard, the Norwegian sensation, seem...Karl Ove Knausgaard, the Norwegian sensation, seems to have gone back to the Richardsonian model. Or rather, more importantly, his publishers seem to have gone back to Aaron Hill's way of doing things. Knausgaard says that he was taught in his creative writing classes to take all the bad writing out. After ten years of doing this he got the idea to write badly, and fast, and every day, with virtually no story at all. He wrote about the banality of his life in excruciating detail, and he says was ashamed every day for three straight years because he was writing about his meaningless life. His Min Kamp clocked in at something like 5000 typewritten pages and was published in 6 volumes. Some Norwegian workplaces, I've read, have declared certain days "Knausgaard-free" because employees were wasting valuable work time discussing the book. <br /><br />I just think it's amazing that a tremendous Norwegian book wasn't a crime novel. I think that you need to write at least one series of detective novels in order to be considered a Norwegian citizen.Mithridateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09071591560485370221noreply@blogger.com