Im Sommer

The Seasons volumes by Karl Ove Knausgård: "In Summer" is the fourth and last part of a grandiose declaration of love to life and the sensually experienced world - written by a father for his youngest daughter. Knausgård writes about sprinklers and snails, red currants and tears, willowherbs, the circus, ladybirds and fishing for crabs. He also keeps a diary in which the small events in the life of a family are recorded against the background of all that a summer brings to life in terms of thoughts, memories, longings, experiences of art and literature. "Time is abysmal, the view one has as a child does not reach far. For me my grandparents' childhood was out of reach, it was something I knew nothing about - and for my children my parents' childhood is out of reach! By their great-grandparents.