Reviews"Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book." - James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) "A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it." - Dagsavisen (Norway) "Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) "Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality." - La Repubblica (Italy) "I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . ." - Västerbottens-kuriren (Sweden) , Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book., I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . ., "Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book." -- James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) "A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it." -- Dagsavisen (Norway) "Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) "Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality." -- La Repubblica (Italy) "I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . ." -- Västerbottens-kuriren (Sweden), A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it., "Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book." -James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) "A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it." - Dagsavisen (Norway) "Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) "Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality." - La Repubblica (Italy) "I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . ." - Västerbottens-kuriren (Sweden) , "Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book." -- James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) "A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it." -- Dagsavisen (Norway) "Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) "Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality." -- La Repubblica (Italy) "I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . ." -- Vsterbottens-kuriren (Sweden), "Out of the ashes of his childhood and the cooling cinders of his youth, Knausgaard has fashioned a memoir that burns with the heat of life." -Christopher Byrd, Barnes & Noble Review "One of the more affecting and resonant books I've read in quite some time . . . What's so striking about the book is the terrifying emotional frankness with which Knausgaard confronts his own history." -Alex Balk, The Awl
Series Volume Number1
SynopsisA 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.
LC Classification NumberPT8951.21.N38