The Wolves of Eternity is the second book in the series that began with The Morning Star, in which a violently bright celestial beam appeared in the sky, stirring a great restlessness in animals and people alike – though, in fact, the pair have little in common.

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Ein gelungenes Unterfangen, das mich allerdings nicht so stark überzeugen konnte, wie "Der Morgenstern" mit seinem Überbau zum Glauben. Like its predecessor, “ The Morning Star” (2020), the new novel comprises multiple narratives filtered through various characters. Tvärtom framstår ryssarna här som det klokare folket som undvikit att fastna i vad Knausgård troligen betecknar som postmodernismens fälla. Vi følger den 19-år gamle Syvert gjennom noen ørkesløse uker i en Sørlandsby på slutten av 80-tallet.The center of Syvert’s life is his precocious younger brother, Joar, whom he dotes on after his father’s ghost appears to him in a dream and tells him to look out for Joar.

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This is a novel fascinated with undoing death, but perhaps its most interesting resurrection is that of a dormant form: the novel of ideas. Like with The Morning Star, I started out very much disliking The Wolves of Eternity only for it to redeem itself in its final third. Dette skaper en uventet nærhet til et menneske som i utgangspunktet er så langt borte fra meg og mitt. The good news, at least for hardcore Knausgaard fans, is that the second book in the series, “ The Wolves of Eternity,” poses more questions than it answers.There are really two main characters, the first being Syvert in Norway ( whose section last 400 pages and is more dull then a documentary on a man named Syvert living in Norway) The second is his half sister Alevtina who resides in Russia ( and fear not her section is filled with scientific and biological studies, death as a construct, classical music and more highly sophisticated literary and science references to make up for the first half) However, let me digress and explain what I think KOK was doing, Syvert is nineteen at the time of his tale, he is not the most educated man and he is grappling with a sick mother and a dead father who he has just found out had an affair with a woman in Russia, spawning his half sister.