Quand le plastique envahit l’écriture de soi : l’exemple de Karl Ove Knausgård

Authors

Camille Deschamps Vierø, Université Bordeaux Montaigne - UnicaenFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-15-2025

Abstract

In “Quand le plastique envahit l’écriture du quotidien : l’exemple de Karl Ove Knausgård,” Camille Deschamps Vierø considers the Anthropocene through the optic of plastic in the works of the Norwegian author, Karl Ove Knausgård. Tracing plastic through Knausgård’s årstidencyklopedien, or “encyclopedia of seasons”—four autobiographical books titled for the four seasons—Deschamps Vierø shows how this operates simultaneously on the personal and planetary scales through its impossibly long decomposition time. This reading extends to environmental critiques in the text, which appear, sometimes banally and at other times socio-politically, like plastic itself, strewn through the author’s life writing.

Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée

Deschamps Vierø, Camille. "Quand le plastique envahit l’écriture de soi : l’exemple de Karl Ove Knausgård." The Goose, vol. 20 , no. 2 , article 4, 2025,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol20/iss2/4.