In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays (Signed First U.K. Edition)

Karl Ove Knausgaard (author); Martin Aiken (translator); Ingvild Burkey; Damion Searls (contributors)

ISBN 10: 1846559413 / ISBN 13: 9781846559419

Published by Harvill Secker, London, 2021

About this Item

First printing of the first U.K. edition. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy with price (£20.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Translated from the Norwegian by Aiken. Note: Lower corner of front board is lightly bumped (as pictured). This copy has been SIGNED by Knausgaard on the title page (as pictured).

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1849

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays (Signed First U.K. Edition)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846559413
• ISBN 13: 9781846559419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.

In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction.

Here, Knausgaard discusses Madame Bovary, the Northern Lights, Ingmar Bergman, and the work of an array of writers and visual artists, including Knut Hamsun, Michel Houellebecq, Anselm Kiefer and Cindy Sherman.

These essays beautifully capture Knausgaard's ability to mediate between the deeply personal and the universal, demonstrating his trademark self-scrutiny and his deep longing to authentically see, understand, and experience the world.

About the Authors

Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes The Morning Star, Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.

Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature number some 35 books. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International DUBLIN Literary Award (2017) and the U.S. National Book Awards (2018), as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019.