When I read the book, I thought of the introductory sentence to My struggle 'For the heart, life is simple, it beats as long as it can'. Now we can basically clone our ancestors or at least create a copy of them, says Karl Ove Knausgård.

When I first came across the idea, I thought it was completely sick, that he was crazy.īut the more I got used to the idea and read modern research, the more I realized that it is not that far away. One of the reasons why Karl Ove Knausgård wanted parts of the book to take place in Russia was that he encountered the Russian 19th century thinker NF Fyodorov, who considered it our moral duty to use science to wipe out death and awaken everyone as ever. In Morgonstjärnan there was an essay about death, here is a similar text about a Russian tradition of thinking about overcoming aging and death. Maybe it's the same with people too, we just become visible in relationships? But it is also about other types of relationships: About trees, forests, nature, animals.Īt the nuclear level, there is a theory that the smallest particles do not exist - it is only visible in relation to others. The book is very much about relationships, these two have a relationship, says Karl Ove Knasugård. In the second part - which takes place in the present - we meet Alevtina, a Russian biologist interested in the origin of life, evolution and the forest as a living organism. In a moving box, he discovers love letters to his dead father, written in Russian from a Soviet woman. In the first part, we meet Syvert, who in 1986 comes home to his mother and little brother after doing his military service. The origin of life, what is life and the infinity of life, says Karl Ove Knausgård. The morning star is about death, while this one is about life. 'The Wolves from the Forest of Eternity' is the sequel to last year's acclaimed 'Morning Star', and explores the limits of life. Karl Ove Knausgård's new novel contains the big questions, but as usual they are hidden in the everyday scenes that have become his hallmark.

Karl ove knausgaard 2022