Essays by Karl Ove Knausgård. Why write, why paint, why photograph? Why read, why look at paintings, why visit galleries? Can it be about anything other than the great questions of life? And what does this engagement have to do with everyday life? "The America of the Soul" is a collection of texts that spans a wide range: from the grace that can be found in attending the funeral of one's own father to the significance of solitude in the works of American photographer Francesca Woodman. From the massacre at Utøya to Knut Hamsun's failed masterpiece "Mysteries.".