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My Struggle
Don Bartlett (translator) & Karl Ove Knausgård · 2013 · 448 pages
A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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 issues—death, love, art, fear—and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.
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Mark Duplass
“Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian narcissist. He has written some 3,600 pages about himself and his life. I know. It sounds awful. But somehow it is riveting. He writes without decoration or flourish. He states the facts of his life in plain prose, and somehow it adds up to something incredibly moving.”↗
Jeremy Strong
“The most honest expression of life that I’ve ever read anywhere.”↗
Hugh Dancy
“In part because reading the first two gave me the unsettling sensation of knowing what it’s like to be someone else better than I know what it’s like to be me, and in part because including it might force me to read the remaining four.”↗
