{"product_id":"the-abyss-or-life-is-courtney-bender-9780226821320","title":"The Abyss or Life Is Simple: Reading Knausgaard Writing Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard's writings and our time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMin kamp\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle, \u003c\/i\u003e is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the same name as the author, in a world at once fully disillusioned and thoroughly enchanted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2015, a group of scholars began meeting to discuss the peculiarly religious qualities of \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e. Some were interested in Knausgaard's attention to explicitly religious subjects and artworks, others to what they saw as more diffuse attention to the religiousness of contemporary life. The group wondered what reading these textures of religion in these volumes might say about our times, about writing, and about themselves. \u003ci\u003eThe Abyss or Life Is Simple\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of this collective endeavor--a collection of interlocking essays on ritual, beauty, and the end of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Courtney Bender, Jeremy Biles, Liane Carlson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226821323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226821320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Courtney Bender","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44076438552831,"sku":"9780226821320","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_baf45658-6b0e-4e71-b158-ff607a4077a8.jpg?v=1685464995","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-abyss-or-life-is-courtney-bender-9780226821320","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}