And it's also a novel is so much more than an essay or an article.
It's not about, you know, one idea, one view of.
It's so incredibly complex.
Just writing a page is incredibly complex because there's no fixed point.
It's like a million possible meanings and it's different for every reader.
Hello and welcome to the Big Interview.
Our guest this week is the Norwegian author Karl Viknosgaard.
Knosgaard first rose to national prominence in 1998 with his debut novel, out of the World, before cementing himself further in the Scandinavian literary scene in 2004 with his major novel, A Time for Everything.
It was his next experiment, the six volume autobiographical epic My Struggle, which would propel Knoscar to international renowned.
Selling over 500,000 copies in Norway alone and millions internationally, the volumes were received with both acclaim and controversy for their minute and often brutally candid depiction of the author's own life and the people in it.
In his later series Morningstar, Knosgard returns to the fictional form, weaving together the stories of a cast of characters whose everyday lives begin to unravel and converge around the appearance of a mysterious new star.
The third novel in the series, the Third Realm, will be available in English on October 3rd.
I'm Gunnar Granlid, Monocles resident Norwegian, and I spoke with Carlo Viknosgaard for the Big Interview.
Carlo Wcneisgaard, welcome to the Big Interview.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for coming.
I kind of just want to start off with a bigger picture question, sort of go back to why did you end up choosing literature over all other forms of art that you were clearly really interested in music, and you talk so much about painting and poetry.
What draws you to literature and keeps you there?
Good question.
A question I never had before.