Zola vs Knausgaard – Round 4
Hello everyone! Leeeeeett’s get ready to ruuuuummmmmbbbbleee! I am now reading Boyhood Island, so all Karl’s trials in this volume are from his childhood. I am also still reading Germinal, as I… Continue reading
Hello everyone! Leeeeeett’s get ready to ruuuuummmmmbbbbleee! I am now reading Boyhood Island, so all Karl’s trials in this volume are from his childhood. I am also still reading Germinal, as I… Continue reading
Germinal has started making my comparison complicated, as now we are no longer just with miners, with lungs full of coal dust, hump-backed children and pit ponies, we are also popping in on… Continue reading
*I am comparing the lives of the characters in Zola’s ‘Germinal’ with how things go for Karl Ove Kausgaard in the second book of the ‘My Struggle’ series, simply because I am reading… Continue reading
I am reading Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘ A Man in Love’ in tandem with Emile Zola’s ‘Germinal’, to see who is suffering the most. So far in ‘Germinal’, the main character Étienne Lantier… Continue reading