My Struggle: Book 1
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4.5 • 135 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A 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.
Customer Reviews
A Unique Voice
The author is wonderful in the way that Per Petterson &
Orhan Pamuk are wonderful. The story became part of my memory, my experience. The narrative is unique to Knausgaard, but it put me in touch with buried parts of my own past thus achieving for me, a universality. I really couldn't put the book down; & only two of the six volumes have been translated.
A Unique Literary Experience
It seems so simple but My Struggle redefines what writing can be. One word, one description follows another in a trickle, then a stream, then a river, and you want more and more. And Knausguard provides.
Found it
Challenging and disorienting. A ramble..