The Abyss or Life Is Simple: Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion
Bender, Courtney; Biles, Jeremy; Carlson, Liane; Dubler, Joshua; Garvey, Hannah C.; Harriss, M. Cooper; Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers; Thorstensen, Erik
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Published by University of Chicago Press, 2022
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- Title
- The Abyss or Life Is Simple: Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion
- Author
- Bender, Courtney; Biles, Jeremy; Carlson, Liane; Dubler, Joshua; Garvey, Hannah C.; Harriss, M. Cooper; Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers; Thorstensen, Erik
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 022682134X
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- 9780226821344
An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard’s writings and our time.
Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the same name as the author, in a world at once fully disillusioned and thoroughly enchanted.
In 2015, a group of scholars began meeting to discuss the peculiarly religious qualities of My Struggle. Some were interested in Knausgaard’s attention to explicitly religious subjects and artworks, others to what they saw as more diffuse attention to the religiousness of contemporary life. The group wondered what reading these textures of religion in these volumes might say about our times, about writing, and about themselves. The Abyss or Life Is Simple is the culmination of this collective endeavor—a collection of interlocking essays on ritual, beauty, and the end of the world.
Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the same name as the author, in a world at once fully disillusioned and thoroughly enchanted.
In 2015, a group of scholars began meeting to discuss the peculiarly religious qualities of My Struggle. Some were interested in Knausgaard’s attention to explicitly religious subjects and artworks, others to what they saw as more diffuse attention to the religiousness of contemporary life. The group wondered what reading these textures of religion in these volumes might say about our times, about writing, and about themselves. The Abyss or Life Is Simple is the culmination of this collective endeavor—a collection of interlocking essays on ritual, beauty, and the end of the world.
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About the Author
Courtney Bender is professor of religion at Columbia University and author of Heaven’s Kitchen: Living with Religion at God’s Love We Deliver, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Jeremy Biles is associate professor of liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Liane Carlson is an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
Joshua Dubler is associate professor of religion at the University of Rochester.
Hannah C. Garvey is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
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