What should you tell? What should you leave out? These used to be the most important questions for memoirists and for writers of all genres. However, I have come to believe that we are entering a new era where the boundaries of realism are being pushed to the limits by … Read More
Tag: Realism
“What was consciousness other than the surface of the soul’s ocean?”
In a Paris Review interview, Jesse Barron observes that Karl Ove Knausgaard’s work is “so aesthetically forceful as to be revolutionary.” What makes it revolutionary is Knausgaard’s goal to write “as close to life as possible” even if it means “breaking” the form of the traditional novel. He said, … Read More