
In his talk with Karl Ove Knausgaard at a Guardian Live Book event earlier this year, interviewer John Mullan elaborates on «the importance of circumstantial detail» in literature – not just in Knausgaard’s autobiographical series of novels, but ever since the inception of the British novel in the 18th century. To conjure up and create presence Knausgaard resorts to …
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