But Knausgaard wanted to uncover another side of Munch, a lonely man who never married and didn’t achieve anything close to his current fame during his lifetime. Munch, who lived from 1863 to 1944, is most well known as the painter of The Scream, one of a handful of artworks famous enough to inspire pop culture parodies. Knausgaard curated an exhibition at Oslo’s Munch Museum as he wrote So Much Longing in So Little Space, which was released in English last week, and eventually decided to direct a documentary about Munch as well. In between wrapping up the final volume of his magnum opus and writing a cycle of four books about the seasons, though, he found time to write a book-length study of one of Norway’s most famous painters, Edvard Munch. Anyone who has read-or even looked at-the thousands of pages that make up Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume work, My Struggle, can tell that the Norwegian writer is prolific.
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