Thread: New large novel compared favorably to Proust - Anyone read this?
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Old 06-12-2014, 06:14 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Hey. Now he can say that he has the largest currently selling book on the smallest currently selling e-reader. (That I know of.)

For some reason, I don't think this is for me.... a 3,5K fantasy series that is essentially one novel: why not? But a novel about the guy writing that novel...?

My understanding, however, is that this is classified as 'literature,' rather than a fantasy. Also, I understand it has biographical elements in it, but they are 'fictionalized' for dramatic and heightened effect. In other words, it's more a piece of fiction, rather than a long autobiographical piece.

...but I haven't read it, so I could be wrong.

ADDED: I mean the author Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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