I had read one of his novels, his second-it’s called A Time for Everything in English-and had been very impressed. What were your impressions of his work up to that point? He said he had just written five-I think it was five-novels.

Afterward, I talked to Karl Ove and asked him what he was working on. I went to a panel discussion in London with three Norwegian writers, led by someone I knew was clued up on Norwegian literature. When did you first encounter My Struggle? editions of My Struggle, and his own theories about why the novels have proven such a success in English. Bartlett, who lives in England, was able to tell me fascinating things about My Struggle -among them, some of the differences between how Knausgaard sounds in Norwegian and English, why Knausgaard seems to sound a tiny bit British in the U.S. He has been over every single word in the first four books of My Struggle several times he has weighed commas and clauses like gold he has scoured for the right voice for Knausgaard in English. I recently had a chance to discuss My Struggle with Bartlett, who, as the book’s translator, is surely one of Knausgaard’s closest, most dedicated readers on Earth. For this we must thank the translator Don Bartlett, who has spent much of the past four years transposing Knausgaard’s Norwegian into an addictive, lively English. But Knausgaard writes in Norwegian, and most of us are reading My Struggle in English. The fourth of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume autobiographical mega-novel, My Struggle, releases today. OL16415706W Page_number_confidence 97.02 Pages 438 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211026185934 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 258 Scandate 20211023094227 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781935744184 Tts_version 4.From the cover of the American edition of My Struggle: Book Four. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:11:28 Associated-names Bartlett, Don Boxid IA40273204 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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