[ilds] KNAUSGAARD MENTIONS LD

[PETER BALDWIN]

Well spotted, Charles, but I think Knaussgard quite misunderstood LD's quote which calls for us to recreate in art our unconscious - not to think it will come to us as some sleepy inspiration.

I am biased against Knaussgard - disliked vol 1 so much that I gave it and vol 2 (which I had ordered with vol 1) away pretty quickly. K seems to me to be one of those writers who take several pages to say what could and should be said in 1 para.


Peter

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On 1 Dec 2017, at 02:15, Charles Sligh <cls9k at virginia.edu<mailto:cls9k at virginia.edu>> wrote:

Dear Ken:

That is a paraphrase of Pursewarden's advice to Clea.

“I can only tell you what I know, and it isn’t much. First you have to know and understand intellectually what you want to do — then you have to sleep-walk a little to reach it."

Clea (II)

Be well!

Charles

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On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Kennedy Gammage <gammage.kennedy at gmail.com<mailto:gammage.kennedy at gmail.com>> wrote:
I’ve been enjoying MIN KAMP thanks in part to Don Bartlett’s translation. I’ve read BOOK 4, BOOK 1, and now near the end of BOOK 2 Karl Ove says “Writing a novel is setting yourself a goal and then walking there in your sleep – Lawrence Durrell had once said that was what it was like, and it was true.” Does anyone recognize the quotation?

Thanks - Ken


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