The irregular return of Knausgård, the exciting maps of Von Humboldt and other books of the week

Karl Ove Knausgård is back.

After his colossal foray into autofiction that was the six-volume series entitled

, the Norwegian writer returns to narrative fiction with a surprising, addictive and hypnotic novel at times, but also irregular and sometimes maddening.

It's about

, in which the author immerses himself in the misty environments of the horror novel, without forgetting to add large doses of action, as the genre often requires.

The trigger is the appearance in the sky of a mysterious star, and, in the two days in which the 780 pages of the novel pass, increasingly strange events begin to occur that affect the nine narrators in different ways (in the first place). person) from Knausgård's text.

The devil is loose in Norway, says Ferran Bono in his review.

The featured book of the week is

, by Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921-1998), whose translation into various languages ​​has caused an international explosion of the work of the Portuguese writer, who suffered exile as a result of the dictatorship of her country, and who became a precursor of feminism thanks to her characters, quiet women who live imprisoned in the pacata morality of the time in Portugal.

In addition, Babelia experts review other books, such as

, in which the American novelist Evan Dara describes the decline of a community, in practice the collapse of a city, after the closure and departure of his university to another town;

, an anthology of Henrik Nordbrandt's poems that serves to discover the Danish writer, engaged in the impossible task of reconstructing a complete memory;

and the culmination of the project for the translation and study of the

, by Alexander von Humboldt, the five volumes (included in his magnum opus of 33 volumes entitled

) that the German cartographer published between 1836 and 1839 to disseminate his scientific theories after a five-year trip to Latin America.

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