Inadvertent
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The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald WindhamâSandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yaleâs Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture given by the eventâs keynote speaker.
In Inadvertent, internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard reveals his beginnings as a writer and his literary influences, his creative development and his struggles. But this text is more than a window into the writerâs frame of mind. Itâs also a glimmering meditation on literature and creativityâon its limitations and its freedoms. From Jorge Luis Borges to Edvard Munch, the text explores Knausgaardâs relationship to art thatâs moved him, and how that art situates itself in our culture. The text is both biographical and philosophical, and raises as many questions as it provides answers.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard is an awardâwinning Norwegian author whose autobiographical novel cycle, My Struggle, spans six volumes which have been translated into over fifteen languages. This international success was coined âScandinaviaâs greatest literary eventâ by Helsingin Sanomat and sold more than 600,000 copies in Norway alone. His debut novel, Out of the World, won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, and his second novel, A Time for Everything, was longlisted for the 2010 International Dublin Literary Award.
Edoardo Ballerini is an Italian-American narrator, actor, and writer who is best known for his role in The Sopranos. He has appeared in over forty films and television series and received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration.
