My Struggle

Book 1 Min kamp, #01

by Karl Ove Knausgård, Don Bartlett

Paperback, 448 pages

Published May 28, 2013 by Farrar Straus Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN:: 978-0-374-53414-1

(15 reviews)

My Struggle: Book One 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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Sandra reviewed My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård (Min kamp, #01)

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4 stars

Here is a book that is essentially about nothing. or, I should say it's about something only it's not anything too out of the ordinary or anything with a plot per say. It's just one guys ruminations on his life... or more to the point, the human condition in general. It says something about Karl Ove Knausgard's writing that I continued to read and read even though nothing out of the ordinary was happening to him. I definitely will try to read the rest of his story as now I'm committed.

I picked up this book because of the cover, LOL. The worried, painful look on his face just drew me in. Here is a man who thinks too much and it gets to him. He is attempting to purge the pain through his writing. Good therapy.