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My Struggle

Book 1

Karl Ove Knausgaard · 2013

Book 1 of Karl Ove Knausgård's six-book autobiographical novel series, translated by Don Bartlett and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013.

My Struggle is a series of six autobiographical novels by Karl Ove Knausgård, published in Norway between 2009 and 2011. Roy Jacobsen discusses the whole series, calling it a well-composed and sometimes brilliantly written stream of consciousness lasting some 3,000 pages. This entry is Book 1, the series entry point, in Don Bartlett’s translation. It was published in English by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013 and runs to 448 pages.

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Jo Nesbø

Norwegian Crime Novelist and Musician

But Knausgaard's literary experiment is both brutally honest and far from dull. Trust me, it'll be worth waiting for volumes three through six to appear in English translation.

Article · November 2013

Roy Jacobsen

Norwegian Novelist and Short Story Writer

The Struggle is something as rare as a well-composed, sometimes brilliantly written, and organised stream of consciousness which lasts, as you said, for 3,000 pages.

Interview · June 2017

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