![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s presentation and conceptual conceit requires further explication: a short letter addressing the author’s unborn fourth child precedes each of Autumn’s three month-sections (“September,” “October,” and “November”), with each month-section containing exactly twenty lyrically ruminative vignettes (sixty in total), none running longer than three pages in length. Published in the US and UK this past fall, the book is essentially a collection of mini-essays framed for an unborn daughter it’s also the first in a cycle of four volumes, Årstid encyklopedien ( Seasonal Encyclopedia), published in the original Norwegian in 20. Possible answers to these craft questions can found in Autumn (Penguin, 2017), celebrated Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård’s first book-length work in English since his name-making six-volume My Struggle autofiction saga. What are the advantages and pitfalls of the short-short nonfiction essay? And what are the advantages and pitfalls of framing creative nonfiction (CNF) work about one’s own family? Karl Ove Knausgård / Photo by Thomas Wågström / Forlaget Oktober ![]()
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