So Much Longing in So Little Space

The Art of Edvard Munch

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and best-selling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, for whom Munch's legacy looms large. Bringing together art history, biography, and memoir, Knausgaard tells a passionate, freewheeling, and pensive story about not just one of history's most significant painters, but the very meaning of choosing the artist's life, as he himself has done. This utterly original and ardent work of criticism will delight and educate both experts and novices of literature and the visual arts alike.

©2017 Forlaget Oktober AS, Oslo; English translation copyright 2019 by Ingvild Burkey (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

if only

if only i could give this six stars! this guy really puts on a clinic about munch and i loved it!

Good start

Can’t wait to have more time for his wonderful novel- everything he writes is fantastic!

not just for Munch fans

Just a riveting tale of art and perception and value and values. For anyone interested in seeing by listening.