My Struggle. Book Four. Youth

The fourth book of the monumental autobiographical cycle by Karl Ove Knausgård "My Struggle" tells about the youth of the main character and the beginning of his writing journey.
Karl Ove is eighteen, he has just graduated from high school, but he does not intend to pursue higher education. He wants to write. His mind is swirling with ideas that are bursting to get onto paper. But, in order to dedicate himself to this endeavor, he needs money and free time. He takes a job as a school teacher in a small fishing village in northern Norway. He does not like the job much, and he likes the village atmosphere even less. However, he is surrounded by incredibly beautiful nature that takes his breath away. At first, everything goes well: he writes several novellas, he is respected by the local guys, and he is popular with the girls. But when polar darkness envelops the surroundings, reducing the available space to a single village street, darkness reigns in the hero's soul. In hopes of regaining his lost inspiration, he drinks more frequently with the local fishermen, only to one day horrify himself by discovering memory lapses - the first sign of alcoholism that ruined his father. And at the edge of his consciousness, the seductive image of a student in love with Karl-Ove increasingly and insistently arises…