Culture

Man vs. Corpse

November 15, 2013
Zadie Smith
My Struggle: Book 1 BY Karl Ove Knausgaard. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Paperback, 448 pages. $16.
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The cover of My Struggle: Book 1

In a sweeping essay on Italian painting, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Tao Lin, Zadie Smith considers the figure of the corpse, and the problem that death poses for artistic representation.