More real than reality.Ĭlick here to read The New Republic’s profile of Knausgaard & the My Struggle series.īook Two of the six-volume literary masterwork My Struggle flows with the same raw energy and candor that ignited the series’ unprecedented bestselling run in Scandinavia, a virulent controversy, and an avalanche of literary awards. The world simply opens up … Knausgaard will have the same status as Henrik Isben and Knut Hamsun.- Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmarkīetween Proust and the woods. “This deserves to be called perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times.”Ī rope round the neck, a knife in the heart. He wants to create great art, and he wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.”
Book Two sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist and not just a tetchy complainer.
strips away the literary tricks, bursts through language, explodes artifice. “My Struggle is an astonishing creation, in which Knausgaard invents a monstrous, tender, brutal, gentle, vain, humble, selfish, brilliant and banal man called Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose life he minutely documents.”
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