![]() ![]() He wrote, he says, always out of a desire to make something better of his life, in the hope of “a cool hand on a warm forehead”.Īs an interviewer, the curiosity of first meeting Knausgaard is doubly unnerving. ![]() My Struggle proceeds as if the clues to Knausgaard’s fractured formative years, the breakdown of his first marriage, his dislocating move from his native Norway to Sweden and a new wife, Linda, and the brief joys and long frustrations of looking after three small children, might make some more sense in their reliving. Written over two and a bit years, around the time the author turned 40, their 3,600 published pages seem to offer a direct line into the Norwegian’s troubled and attentive mind as it tries to understand itself through the reconstructed detail of everyday life. ![]() The books – he likes to call them “the project”, as if they were a sort of demonic exercise – set a new standard of literary self-disclosure. F or anyone who has read all or part of the six volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical novel My Struggle, I guess it would be a profoundly curious thing to meet him in person. ![]()
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