Almost ten years have passed since Karl Ove Knausgaard's father
drank himself to death. Vulnerable and assailed by doubts, he is
now embarking on a new novel. With an uncanny eye for detail,
Knausgaard breaks down his own life story to its elementary
particles, reliving memories, reopening wounds, and examining with
candor the turbulence and the epiphanies that emerge from his own
experience of fatherhood, the fallout in the wake of his father's
death, and his visceral connection to music, art, and literature.
Karl Ove's dilemmas strike nerves that give us raw glimpses of our
particular moment in history as we witness what happens to the
sensitive and churning mind of a young man trying- as if his very
life depended on it- to find his place in the disjointed world
around him. This Proustian masterpiece opens a window into one of
the most original minds writing today.
Intense and vital... The need for totality . . . brings superb,
lingering, celestial passages . . .
The concluding sentences of the book are] placid, plain, achieved.
They have what Walter Benjamin called 'the epic side of truth,
wisdom.' --James Wood, "The New Yorker"
"While not unconcerned with finding objective truth in the moments
he recounts, Mr. Knausgaard aims first to simply record them, to
try to shape the banal into something worth remembering.
Beautifully rendered and, at times, painfully observant, his book
does a superlative job of finding that "inner core of human
existence." --"The Wall Street Journal"
Steadily absorbing, lit up by pages of startling insight and
harrowing honesty, My Struggle introduces into world literature a
singular character and immerses us in his fascinating Underground
Man consciousness. -- Philip Lopate
Karl Ove--with his shyness, his passion, his honesty--can take on
any subject and make it his own. -- Edmund White
I read both books One and Two] hungrily and find myself already
missing Knausgaard just a few days after turning A Man in Love's
last page, searching the Web for inexpensive crash courses in
Norwegian, mostly just wishing Volume Three were available in
English now. --Jonathan Callahan, "The Millions"
Knausgaard's preternatural facility for description, the dreamy
thickness of his prose, speaks not only to the sheer pleasure his
fiction affords, but to the philosophical stakes of that pleasure.
-- Mark Sussman, "Los Angeles Review of Books"
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