" "Book 2"] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate
idealist who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of
modern bourgeois existence." --James Wood, "The New Yorker
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In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental
six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to
Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary
existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled
Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named
Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop
a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.
" My Struggle: Book 2 "is at heart a love story--the story of Karl
Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells
other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family
life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation,
of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of
the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life
keeping him from (and filling) his novel.
It is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the unlikely
promise that many hundreds of pages later readers will be left
breathlessly demanding more.
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