The New York Times bestseller that launched the Norwegian author's audacious, addictive, and globally acclaimed six-volume autobiographical novel.
It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issuesâdeath, love, art, fearâand yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.
"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive." âDwight Garner, The New York Times
"Knausgaard is a master . . . guiding us inexorably and irresistibly towards the next installment." âFinancial Times
"It would not be an exaggeration to say that Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume memoir My Struggle . . . has catapulted the Norwegian writer into the rarefied company of such authors as James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Henry Miller. These writers burst forth with a new consciousness and in so doing became the voice of their generation. Years hence we will be talking about Knausgaard's incredibly detailed memoir cycle doing the same for the late 20th century." âThe Providence Journal
"It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack." âZadie Smith, via Twitter
"What makes his book extraordinary is not what happens, which couldn't be more familiar or ordinary. It's that Knausgaard aims to capture the unending blizzard of feelings, objects, people and situations that make up a life. At the same time, like Proustâthe inevitable point of comparisonâhe hopes to shape all this stuff into a form that gives his experience a larger meaning." âNPR
The New York Times bestseller that launched the Norwegian author's audacious, addictive, and globally acclaimed six-volume autobiographical novel.
It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issuesâdeath, love, art, fearâand yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.
"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive." âDwight Garner, The New York Times
"Knausgaard is a master . . . guiding us inexorably and irresistibly towards the next installment." âFinancial Times
"It would not be an exaggeration to say that Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume memoir My Struggle . . . has catapulted the Norwegian writer into the rarefied company of such authors as James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Henry Miller. These writers burst forth with a new consciousness and in so doing became the voice of their generation. Years hence we will be talking about Knausgaard's incredibly detailed memoir cycle doing the same for the late 20th century." âThe Providence Journal
"It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack." âZadie Smith, via Twitter
"What makes his book extraordinary is not what happens, which couldn't be more familiar or ordinary. It's that Knausgaard aims to capture the unending blizzard of feelings, objects, people and situations that make up a life. At the same time, like Proustâthe inevitable point of comparisonâhe hopes to shape all this stuff into a form that gives his experience a larger meaning." âNPR