Karl ove knausgård books6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But even more frightening was the fact that it was so easy-that this combination of cockiness and cluelessness, as you so precisely pin it down, was apparently still very close to my present self. Everyone wants to be clever-it’s hard to give up that side and go blindly for stupidity. The tricky thing was, indeed, to refuse my older and more experienced self any space in the text. Was that a tricky thing to do? Did you feel that you were experiencing the depths of romantic humiliation all over again as you were writing? ![]() You capture perfectly a particular combination of cockiness and cluelessness that marks the onset of adolescence, while managing to keep the judgment of an older, wiser self at bay. The excerpt covers the young Karl Ove’s growing fascination with girls, and with one girl in particular, Kajsa, a student at a neighboring school. ![]()
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