DANCING IN THE DARK: MY STRUGGLE: BOOK FOUR - Rare Fine Copy of The First British Edition/First Printing: Signed, Placed, And Dated (On The Day of Publication) by Karl Ove Knausgaard - VINTAGE, FULL SIGNATURE

Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Translated by Don Bartlett)

ISBN 10: 1846557240 / ISBN 13: 9781846557248

Verlag: London, England: Harvill Secker, 2015, 2015

Beschreibung

1st Printing. Signed. 395 pages. Published in 2015. The fourth volume of the author's "My Struggle" six-volume novel. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. The translation is published in the United Kingdom as "Dancing In The Dark", and also as part of the British "My Struggle" six-volume cycle. It's the other way around in the United States, where "My Struggle" takes precedence over the individual volumes. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. Should not be confused with copies that are signed on the publisher's tipped-in page. The First Edition is now rare. The production values of the British Edition are superior in every respect to its American counterpart. Presents Karl Ove Knausgaard's "Min Kamp" Volume Four in a felicitous English translation. Portrait of The Writer As A Young Man. What is the significance of Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle"? It is the most full-fledged break from - and signals the end of - the mannerism, academicism, post-modernism, and all the other pretentious and tired isms of our time. It confirms the arrival of a major and original voice in world literature, writing in deceptively simple yet eloquent prose, without crutches. It rejects our obsession with "celebrity lives", by focussing on the tiniest details of one man's ordinary life as well as deeply painful struggle. It represents nothing less than a new - and transgressive - way of writing for our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Karl Ove Knausgaard collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (on the day of publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "London 2/3/15 Karl Ove Knausgaard". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It should also be noted that this copy has his FULL signature, which is the way he signed the first three volumes of "My Struggle" when they first came out. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed, placed, and publication-day dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Extreme demand and time constraint have made Knausgaard resort to an Ondaatje-like swirl of a signature. Copies signed in this drastically abbreviated way have little to no collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1846557240. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19609

Bibliografische Details

Titel: DANCING IN THE DARK: MY STRUGGLE: BOOK FOUR ...

Verlag: London, England: Harvill Secker, 2015

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author

Auflage: 1st Edition.

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Críticas:

"A living hero" (Jonathan Lethem Guardian)

"A work of genius" (Ben Lerner London Review of Books)

"Fires every nerve ending while summoning in the reader the sheer sense of how amazing it is to be alive" (Jeffrey Eugenides New York Times)

"Beautifully human... Being drawn into his world is an ineluctable pleasure" (Melissa Katsoulis The Times)

"It has strong claim to be the great literary event of the twenty-first century" (Guardian)

"Why would you read a six-volume, 3,600 page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six-volume, 3,600 page novel? The short answer is that it is breathtakingly good and so you cannot stop yourself, and would not want to" (New York Times Book Review)

"It's unbelievable...I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind" (Zadie Smith)

"Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times" (Rachel Cusk Guardian)

"Knausgaard perfectly captures the heady mixture of elation and confusion to be found in late adolescence... My Struggle remains addictive, intensely funny and intensely serious. Like the young man here portrayed, it is "full to the brim with energy and life"" (Times Literary Supplement)

"At the end of this bittersweet stint in the far north, translated again with both dynamism and delicacy by Don Bartlett, the last track invoked happens to be that talisman of the late John Peel: “Teenage Kicks” by The Undertones. For all its manic overdub of detail, Dancing in the Dark delivers a knockout kick" (Boyd Tonkin Independent)