?Is the novel important? Why and for whom?" Karl Ove Knausg?rd asks himself in this speech, delivered in London in October 2022. His answer is a complete defense of the novel as the only thing capable of capturing life as it is: as something always open, changing, traversed by multiple conflicting and contradictory energies. In dialogue with the ideas of D. H. Lawrence, Knut Hamsun and other authors, Knausg?rd achieves here an extraordinary piece...
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