On 'The School of Night'

The School of Night, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest novel published in English, translated by Martin Aitken, is the fourth volume in a still-unfinished cycle with the overall title The Morning Star. It is the most ambitious endeavor by this extraordinarily ambitious writer since the conclusion of My Struggle, the autofictional series that made him famous. For now, each of these new books is presented as a freestanding narrative, though perhaps they will take on a different weight and significance when the project is complete.