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In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art
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By Meghan O’Gieblyn
Essays
By Karl Ove Knausgaard
“In almost everything I have written there is a longing for boundaries,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes in an essay about his editor, Geir Gulliksen. It’s a somewhat baffling confession coming from a man whose name has become synonymous with literary excess, a writer whose six-volume autobiographical novel, “My Struggle,” obliterated the usual distinctions between literature and life. And yet, Knausgaard’s critical writing does return obsessively to the question of artistic limits. “I long to be free, totally free in art, and this to me is to be without politics, without morals,” he writes in another essay, about the American photographer Sally Mann. But even the most simple representations, he concludes, prohibit such freedom, for artist and audience alike. “If we look at a picture of a tree, we are immediately caught
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The Best Albums Of 2020 Dec. 29, 2020 8:49 a.m.
Before we get to the best albums of 2020, I want to highlight the most unexpectedly delightful song of the year, “I Wonder What’s Inside Your Butthole.” Lisa Rieffel dropped her daughter Jolee s inspired, inquisitive song about the mysteries of the human digestive system in May 2020, at a time when many people had just started to process the fact that the pandemic was going to disrupt life for much more than a few months. It was a welcome bit of surreal levity, and a spark of connection for many, spawning a seriesofcovers (I m partial to this one). Jolee ended up recording her own rock version, as well as a hip-hop remix which almost sounds like a long-lost M.I.A. demo. There s a lot of 2020 ephemera and memes which have already been lost to the miasma of this strange year, but this was one of the few that continues to bring a smile to my face.
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