EAN: 9781642860894

OCTOBER CHILD - LINDA BOSTRÖM KNAUSGÅRD KARTONI...

A fight against the dark From 2013 to 2017  Linda Boström Knausgård was periodically interned
in a psychiatric ward where she was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. As the treatments
at this factory progressed  the writer's memories began to disappear. What good is a writer
without her memory? This book  based on the author's experiences  is an eloquent and profound
attempt to hold on to the past  to create a story  to make sense  and to keep alive ties to
family  friends  and even oneself. Moments from childhood  youth  marriage  parenting  and
divorce flicker across the pages of October Child. This is the story of one woman's struggle
against mental illness and isolation. It is a raw testimony of how writing can preserve and
heal. Linda Boström Knausgård writes with her usual linguistic momentum  there's a kind of
inviting energy in her voice. She balances her desperation with poetic precision and makes the
urgency real for the reader.Svenska Dagbladet October Child is a bold book  not in its openness
but in its aloofness  in its faithfulness to literature and language rather than to reason and
science. Against the great story of psychiatry with its simple  ready-made answers  Boström
Knausgård insists on the irrationality in humans and on the suffering of each
individual.Gothenburg Post

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