In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays is an essay collection by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård. Published in English in 2021, it is a selection of texts from Knausgård's books Sjelens Amerika. Tekster 1996–2013 and I kyklopenes land. Tekster 2009–2018, published by Forlaget Oktober in 2013 and 2018 respectively.
Contents "All That Is in Heaven" "Pig Person" "Fate" "Welcome to Reality" "America of the Soul" "At the Bottom of the Universe" "Tándaradéi" "Michel Houellebecq's Submission" "Feeling and Feeling and Feeling" "Idiots of the Cosmos" "In the Land of the Cyclops" "The Other Side of the Face" "Life in the Sphere of Unending Resignation" "Madame Bovary" "The World Inside the World" "Ten Years Old"
Reception Reviewing the book for The Guardian, Rob Doyle wrote that the essay was seeing a resurgence in popularity, but "Knausgaard's new collection, which covers literature, contemporary art, photography, nature writing and loose cosmic musings, does not show him to be a first-rate practitioner of the form". Doyle mentioned texts on Madame Bovary, Knut Hamsun and the "punitive, curtain-twitching philistinism" of Sweden's mass media as positive highlights, but wrote that Knausgård fails when he writes about abstract subjects.
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External links Archipelago Books