Karl Ove Knausgaard

"I'm sitting on the couch upstairs with a piece of semolina cake, reading Knausgaard's My Struggle Volume 2. I'm on the very sentence where Knausgaard describes first meeting his future (now ex-) wife--'Then I met Linda and the sun rose'--when a woman glides across the room and takes a seat at the ta"

"The guilt and shame he feels when he does something wrong. His inner emotions and cold demeanour. He does not hold back in telling us when he does something wrong or shameful. No author has ever captured the human experience (or at least my perception of it) so accurately."