Mr. Knausgaard's work clearly has a confessional element, said Ms. Hustvedt, who interviewed Mr. Knausgaard about "My Struggle" at a party for the book in New York.
Hit potential His Marmitey material shouldn't stand in the way of sales: the celebrity, and self-confessional elements, will always prompt interest.
The show works best when its elements — confessional paired with snarkiness — are conflated, as they were during a phone interview with the singer Whitney Houston in 2003.
There is a secret Russian voice running through Shostakovich's music and, one might presume, an element of confessional, but Haitink seeks to liberate a universal Shostakovich, as important to now as any time.
That's why even some of his big-screen roles come off as glorified performance art; in Spring Breakers, where he played a rasta-braided sex-freak drug dealer, his acting had a teasing element of confessional exhibitionism.
There is always an element of the confessional about interviewing people, but I really felt like a priest when I interviewed MySpace co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe earlier this week.
Surely every concert has an element of ritual, but a Dashboard Confessional concert is a ritual first and foremost.
To step into the confessional myself, I should say that Rob Roy, Primal Fear and The Fifth Element are all examples of love at second sight after unfairly dismissing them in print.
It is brutally confessional, and ruthless in its use of the women in Lowell's life as elements of his private drama about guilt, redemption, and the impossibility of true union.
