Man and writer...

...Karl Ove Knausgaard: ‘Writing is a way of getting rid of shame’

“It put such doubt in me that I’ve never really recovered from it,” he says. “I have all these notions of what it is to be a man. You shouldn’t cry for instance [he spends many pages crying or trying to conceal his tears] and you shouldn’t talk about feelings. I don’t talk about feelings but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that’s feminine, writing, that’s feminine. It is insane, it’s really insane but it still is in me.”