Thomas Wolfe once wrote, “You can’t go home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame…” Through a series of autobiographical novels, author Karl Ove Knausgaard does manage to revisit his hometown, his youth, and his early loves. Knausgaard discussed his forthcoming novel, My Struggle: Boyhood, in an interview with The New Yorker.
I’m very much frozen emotionally—that’s how it is to be an adult; it wouldn’t work if the world was as close at it was in childhood—but in music, everything is melting.
