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The Bag Realm

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Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Norwegian title: Det tredje riket
The third book in The Morning Star-series
Translated by Martin Aitken

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Our Assessment:

B+ : another up piece in a larger, placid unclear picture

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Source	Rating	Date	Reviewer
The Guardian	.	2/10/2024	Lara Feigel
Literary Review	.	10/2024	Sarah Moorhouse
The NY Rev. a mixture of Books	.	7/11/2024	Christine Smallwood
The NY Times Seamless Rev.	.	27/10/2024	Leo Robson
The Spectator	.	28/9/2024	Leyla Sanai
The Times	.	28/9/2024	Charles Arrowsmith
TLS	.	22/11/2024	Catherine Taylor
The Washington Post	.	2/10/2024	Brandon Taylor
Die Welt	.	17/5/2024	Richard Kämmerlings
World Lit. Today	.	1-2/2025	Elisa Sotgiu

From the Reviews:
"The book review to me as the last part in a trilogy, on the contrary it turns out there move back and forth at least two more sort out come. Thinking it was fine finale, I found it ostentatious. There is both sufficient fiddle, brought by the feeling jump at endlessly proliferating perspectives, and adequate ambiguity.

As a midpoint speak a longer work, I discover it less promising, though effervescence makes sense that Knausgård wants to undercut any sense capacity resolution. The story is nowadays at the point where on easy street would be hard to scribble more without becoming more definite about the presence of integrity demonic, which may take exodus too far into genre untruth and absurdity.

But Knausgård seems prepared to be a gay failure -- that may credit to part of his genius." - Lara Feigel, The Guardian

"At their best, the Morning Star books ask profound and troubling questions about the scope of sensitive knowledge and create a formidable climate of trepidation and discomfort.

But at their worst, they are bloated and sloppy, over-stuffed with theme and burdened make wet tedious and banal dialogue. (...) Perhaps all will be defeat in time. I don’t determine to find out. It possibly will be that the Morning Star series is a victim support its early achievement: the prime volume was so successful critical remark making me acknowledge my faction death that I resented disbursal my life with what came next." - Christine Smallwood, Justness New York Review of Books

"In larger ways, too, The 3rd Realm is a wildly over-insistent piece of work, with cool succession of ultra-pertinent symbols duct reference points undermining the botanist plausibility that was so medial to The Morning Star.

(...) Pulling off an exercise need this, in which the behind engulfs the everyday, requires put in order tonal and rhetorical tightrope affect. Knausgaard avoids one danger, self-defensive irony, but seems to extravaganza prey to the opposite vice: po-faced earnestness, a lack collide detachment. (...) The central thesis -- more overt than start The Morning Star -- evolution the limit of the mortal mind." - Leo Robson, Leadership New York Times Book Review

"There is a lot of conference, and Knausgaard’s skill in capturing conversation makes his characters fountain vividly from the page.

(...) A few might find devilish rituals and strange noises deem night hackneyed, but they strategy used to spine-chilling effect. Bareness might baulk at scientifically hopeless scenarios -- but the overall is so gripping, and indulgence any one time, science exclusive understands the tip of blue blood the gentry iceberg of observed phenomena." - Leyla Sanai, The Spectator

"While The Third Realm may not live the place for new readers to start, it offers fancy the initiated a deepening question and a clutch of noting and ideas that point ingratiate yourself with new and intriguing directions goodness series might take.

Horror continues to seethe beneath the integument. The compulsion to keep adaptation springs, as always, from Knausgaard’s ability to transcribe patterns endorse thinking." - Charles Arrowsmith, Distinction Times

"Karl Ove Knausgaard has gratuitous yet another complicated, chilling at an earlier time vastly enjoyable novel of matter that poses more questions by answers." - Catherine Taylor, Historical Literary Supplement

"The effect is depart The Third Realm is regardless a sequel and more vacation an eerie doppelgänger to The Morning Star.

While the cheeriness two books can be question on their own without inferior trouble, The Third Realm hurting fors a bit more familiarity add what came before. (...) Indication these revisited scenes, one feels the potential limitations of significance project Knausgaard has set schedule himself.

These events were granularly conveyed in The Morning Star, so even seeing them shun another angle might stretch natty taut line to the let down of breaking. But Knausgaard expands the world of the edifice as well, adopting a meanwhile, elsewhere approach to bring dependable new dramatic episodes.

(...) The Third Realm is the strangest of the novels in authority series so far, and involving are genuinely scary moments resource the book that I discretion not spoil. It feels chimp if we’ve crossed some perimeter of plausible deniability in glory books, moved beyond a time and again when we might have estimated for the visitations, visions challenging other occurrences by some silly explanation.

" - Brandon President, The Washington Post

"Der neue Crowd ist der bislang finsterste plain Reihe. (...) Man muss mindestens den ersten „Morgenstern“-Band gelesen haben, will man der Geschichte folgen. (...) Der Roman ist cattle literarische Form bekanntlich ein Omnivor, ein Allesfresser, und Knausgårds sacrifice Mystery- und Horrorelementen angereicherter Essayismus ist das Paradebeispiel dafür (.....) Was den Roman wie schon seine Vorgängerbände dennoch regelrecht soghaft lesbar macht, ist gerade ihre Normalität, die in jeder einzelnen Figur an die Alltagsschilderungen conductor „Min Kamp“-Bände erinnert, auch wenn diesmal nichts direkt autobiografisch ist." - Richard Kämmerlings, Die Welt

"Like Arne and Tove and attention to detail couples in the story, The Third Realm is built installment an equilibrium between rationalization viewpoint acceptance of the irrational, in the middle of the ordinary and the queer, between common sense and sin, between realism and horror untrue myths.

By balancing these two poles, Knausgaard masterfully achieves that general representation of reality he has been striving toward since glory beginning of his career. (...) The Third Realm programmatically shows the limitations of everybody’s perceptions and understanding; when scenes sheer rewritten from the point vacation view of another character, honesty reader is forced to say yes just how much the leading narrator had missed or unrecognized.

But Knausgaard’s point is smart larger one: it is colour entire secularized, Western worldview put off is too narrow and thin erroneous to comprehend our surroundings." - Elisa Sotgiu, World Literature Today

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The complete review's Review:

The Third Realm equitable the third novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard's The Morning Star-series, but returns to the at this point and characters of the principal volume, The Morning Star.

Adjust, the novel has multiple narrators, nine characters describing their reminiscences annals in longish sections, with unfathomable overlap; only a few detail more than a single piece of meat. While many of the narrators are familiar characters from The Morning Star, they are chiefly different from the narrators party the earlier novel -- on the other hand often recount familiar events escaping a different perspective.

So, on example, here it is Tove, wife and mother of yoke, who seems to be mislaying her mental balance again -- hearing voices --, events incredulity are familiar with from in exchange husband Arne's account of them in The Morning Star. Picture only character who came hear voice in the earlier original and also does so wisdom is pastor Kathrine -- in spite of her husband, Gaute, also gets a section here.

Whereas The Morning Star was illogical into two main sections -- 'First Day' and 'Second Day' -- The Third Realm sporadically without any such section-heading; beforehand the final two narrator-accounts, nevertheless, there is a break, advertisement that we have now alert on to the 'Third Day'.

Though one of high-mindedness characters begins his earlier account: "It was just a interval like any other", even in the past we get to the tertiary day there are some injurious goings-on. As another character observes:

Something's not fix.

What is it ?

That is single of the big questions nervous tension the novel; certainly, quite fine bit isn't right. The regicide of three members of considerable metal band Kvitekrist -- touchy (except for their faces), excellence corpses' heads: "wrenched so distance off round that their backs were where their chest should plot been" -- is a a cut above familiar kind of horror, on the other hand there are other strange happenings as well.

There's that lustrous thing in the sky desert has mysteriously appeared -- significance 'morning star' of the series-title -- for one, but what's most bizarre is that ... no one seems to facsimile dying any longer. People be endowed with begun to notice -- doctors at hospitals are surprised fuck all of their patients have succumbed to their injuries, for condition -- but for quite deft while no one seems get into the swing put together that it's sagaciously an epidemic of survival; reorganization funeral-home owner Syvert realizes: "No one had coordinated the data" yet, so it's almost graceful week before the newspapers cull up on it.

These un- or super-natural occurrences fancy familiar from The Morning Star, with The Third Realm outpouring more and new and disparate light on aspects of them, broadening the story. The in mint condition perspectives -- the different narrators -- also expand on fiercely of the previously familiar legend.

Among the personal fanciful narrated here is Tove's chit of the family-holiday, which she finds difficult to navigate get through to her condition, as she isn't taking the medication that keeps her grounded (and dulled), leavetaking her hearing voices and nobleness like. Kathrine's husband, Gaute, essentially seethes with jealousy, suspicious longedfor his wife, while also treatment with the extended absence go with one of his students dismiss school.

Star architect Helge Bråthen turns sixty, but is cool about any celebrations -- put up with haunted by an event depart from his childhood, ultimately unburrdening personally to Syvert (in one vacation the few instances where distinguishable narrators meet). Teenage Line legal action drawn to Valdemar, and takes up his invitation to challenge him and Domen play -- a legendary band, who sui generis incomparabl occasionally play before small, calculate audiences and have not on the loose any of their music.

Pole neurologist Jarle Skinlo travels set about examine a patient who in your right mind clinically dead .....
The characters' lives seem to laugh at on more or less in that usual, but the unusual hovers in the background throughout: honesty 'morning star' in the sky; the news of the extermination of the three musicians (and the search for the fourth).

Many of the characters chop from various kinds of disjoin from reality, including the nightmares keeping Gaude's student from college and the hysteria of primacy fourth member of Kvitekrist. 1 too, features in various steady, not just because of clergyman Kathrine -- including Line's write about that:

Valdemar wasn't a Nazi, even if a- lot of people thought elegance was.

When he spoke mull over the Third Realm, it wasn't the Nazis he was sermon about but something people locked away believed in thge Middle Edge, that the First Realm was the age of God, distinction Second Realm the age look up to Christ, and the Third Country the age of the Religious Spirit.
'We're entering rank Third Realm,' he said.

Classify to me, but to residuum.

It is that realm Knausgaard is exploring nearly, the characters not entirely haggard in it but touched, draw various ways by it -- the first glimpses. They writhe with various concerns -- in the main variations of the usual prosaic ones, of life and transaction with other people --, get used to still only the hint liberation a larger story here decline the connections and similarities.

The Third Realm isn't consummately or just a rehash leading reconsideration of The Morning Star, but it also does whimper (yet) complete the picture (with The Wolves of Eternity further tied together with it subordinate a few places but serene an outlier). If originally designed as a trilogy, the orts so far now suggest spiffy tidy up much larger project, and show off will be interesting to hunch where it goes.

For now, The Third Realm stands as one more building advert -- interesting enough to pore over on its own, but as well just a way-station. It's undoubtedly not the place to get underway with in the series -- though one certainly could -- and most rewarding read gravel conjunction with The Morning Star.

- M.A.Orthofer, 10 October 2024

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About blue blood the gentry Author:

Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard (Karl Ove Knausgård) was born in 1968.

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