9 best-selling literature books like Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4) by Karl Ove Knausgård

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Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.93

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four se…

"A person who is everyone is no one, empty. A person who is someone can always become someone else."

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

"A person who is everyone is no one, empty. A person who is someone can always become someone else."

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

"Only by forgetting that one is writing can one write and give an external expression to the internal thought without it being marked or prevented by shame, as all other external expressions are."

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

"Only by forgetting that one is writing can one write and give an external expression to the internal thought without it being marked or prevented by shame, as all other external expressions are."

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

If you liked the literature plot in Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4) by Karl Ove Knausgård , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Andvake

By: Jon Fosse

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Alida og Asle er komne til Bjorgvin for a finne arbeid og ein stad a bu. Alida er hoggravid, men in… read more

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  • literature
  • scandinavian literature
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2. Mañana y tarde

By: Jon Fosse

3.88

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
  • scandinavian literature
  • contemporary
"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

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3. Naustet

By: Jon Fosse

3.83

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Tre dagar ein sommar utspeler det seg ei trekanthistorie mellom eg-personen, barndomskameraten Knut… read more

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  • literature
  • scandinavian literature
  • audiobook
"Eg går ikke ut lenger, ei uro er kommen over meg, og eg går ikkje ut."

-Jon Fosse, Naustet

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4. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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5. Moral

By: Lyra Ekström Lindbäck

3.49

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Anna anländer till en universitetsstad i Tjeckien för att doktorera i moralfilosofi. Hennes handled… read more

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  • contemporary
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6. Giæver og Iunker

By: Erlend Loe

3.86

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Gamle Giæver bruker sine siste dager på jorda til å orientere unge Giæver om familiehistorien, om p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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7. Welcome to America

By: Linda Boström Knausgård

3.55

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Ellen has stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother’s barricaded himself… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • contemporary
"Sömnen kom som en mörk dimma varje natt. Den lade sig över mig och jag hade bara någon centimeters luft mellan mitt ansikte och dimman."

-Linda Boström Knausgård, Welcome to America

"Dagar och nätter liknar varandra. Tystnaden mjukar upp konturerna så att allt kläs i ett slags dis. Vi kan kalla det halvdager. Vi kan kalla det vad som helst."

-Linda Boström Knausgård, Welcome to America

"It was all so easy. My mum says it was denial. That I wanted life to pass me by, instead of standing there getting drenched in it like everyone else. She thought less of me now, that was hardly surpr…"

-Linda Boström Knausgård, Welcome to America

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8. I Is Another: Septology III-V

By: Jon Fosse

4.44

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • literature
  • audiobook
  • scandinavian literature
  • contemporary
"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

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9. Scenes from a Childhood

By: Jon Fosse

3.67

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more

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  • literature
  • scandinavian literature
  • contemporary
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10. Øvre port, nedre port

By: Geir Gulliksen

3.45

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

I en liten norsk by på 1950-tallet blir Gladys gravid som attenåring. Hun gifter seg og får etter h… read more

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11. Oktoberbarn

By: Linda Boström Knausgård

3.67

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

Periodvis mellan 2013 och 2017 är författaren tvångsinlagd på en psykiatrisk avdelning, där hon uts… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • contemporary
"Why do I torture myself with memories from those years? What is it that's still not resolved, over and done with? I mean, what distances haven't I traveled since then? All young people do violence to…"

-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn

"I've always known I can write as though it were a matter of life or death. It is a matter of life or death. But life isn't meaningless when I'm not writing. The writing lives inside of me, I'm just w…"

-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn

"I've always held myself in high esteem. No one needed to tell me I was good at writing: All I would have to do was sit down and the words would come. I knew like you knew you'd be capable of killing …"

-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn

Cover of The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse

12. The Other Name: Septology I-II

By: Jon Fosse

4.06

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more

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  • literature
  • scandinavian literature
  • contemporary
"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."

-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II

"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"

-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II

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13. A New Name: Septology VI-VII

By: Jon Fosse

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • literature
  • scandinavian literature
  • contemporary
"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"

-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

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14. Meduze žive zauvek dok ih ne uhvate

By: Nadja Petrović

3.81

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Sara na svirci ima susret sa osobom iz prošlosti koja nosi ribu u rancu, riba oživi i ugrize je za … read more

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15. Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

By: Tore Renberg

3.86

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

Sachsen, 1681: Femten år gamle Anna Voigt tiltales for å ha drept sitt nyfødte barn. Blir hun kjent… read more

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  • audiobook
"For å tre inn i Gleditsch' bokhandel. Hyllemeter på hyllemeter med bøker. Himmelen slik den fortoner seg på jorden."

-Tore Renberg, Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

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16. Pas

By: Ivan Tokin

4.35

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

U univerzumu slobode u kome se grize i voli bez kajanja, kuca malo, hrabro srce koje preti da uništ… read more

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  • contemporary
"Lepo je kad se živi. Lepo je kad je teško. Lako je magla. Lako je samo vrh ledenog brega. Lako je tri centimetra cveta iznad deset metara korenovog sistema. Lako ima tanku priču. Lako je za turiste u…"

-Ivan Tokin, Pas

Cover of Sezona berbe by Magdalena Blažević

17. Sezona berbe

By: Magdalena Blažević

4.17

Format: 147 pages, Hardcover

Nakon kratkotrajne ljubavne afere s puhačem stakla fotografkinja Una, pod izgovorom da priprema izl… read more

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18. U kasno ljeto

By: Magdalena Blažević

4.21

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Kada vihor rata zahvati pitoreskno bosansko selo, on će pomesti i raznijeti cijeli svijet djetinjst… read more

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19. Mjölkat

By: Sanna Samuelsson

3.55

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

"En kille i klassen drog ett skämt om att vi drack mjölken direkt från spenen. Att vi levde på det … read more

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  • scandinavian literature
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20. Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.93

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four se… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • scandinavian literature
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"A person who is everyone is no one, empty. A person who is someone can always become someone else."

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

"Only by forgetting that one is writing can one write and give an external expression to the internal thought without it being marked or prevented by shame, as all other external expressions are."

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

"few things are a more satisfying substitute for the presence of other people than writing, which at the same time provides an excuse for one's antisocial behaviour, for everyone knows that someone wh…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

"I asked whether beauty was important to her. She said she had been trained to be suspicious of beauty, to be on guard against it. So am I, it is a tenet of our culture that beauty, at least the obvio…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)

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21. Skjerm barna

By: Maja Lunde

4.48

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Barna sitter bøyd over skjermen, tidlig og sent. Algoritmene stjeler dager og år fra det de egentli… read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.26

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