The world simply opens up … Knausgaard will have the same status as Henrik Isben and Knut Hamsun.- Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmarkīetween Proust and the woods. “This deserves to be called perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times.”Ī rope round the neck, a knife in the heart.
He wants to create great art, and he wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.” Book Two sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist and not just a tetchy complainer. strips away the literary tricks, bursts through language, explodes artifice. The book is strongest when Karl Ove is figuring out who he is as a writer, and when he begins to take his craft seriously, hinting at the success that will come in the author s own life.“My Struggle is an astonishing creation, in which Knausgaard invents a monstrous, tender, brutal, gentle, vain, humble, selfish, brilliant and banal man called Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose life he minutely documents.” Unfortunately, the casual breeziness of the prose can make it hard to keep track of Karl Ove s countless love interests and acquaintances, as many are only briefly mentioned. Unapologetically crude, this entry is the funniest and least self-conscious in the series to date there s a humorous momentum propelling the narrative as Karl Ove attempts to lose his virginity. The internal battle between his carnal urges and his ambitions and morals is an ongoing theme.
But he also matures and develops his own artistic sensibilities. Meanwhile, Karl Ove drinks heavily, experiments with drugs, and gets into a bit of trouble. These sections give readers a clearer understanding of Karl Ove s life after his parents divorce, and of his father s downward spiral into alcoholism that ultimately led to his death (as described in book one). A large chunk of the book is devoted to the year or so leading up to Karl Ove s decision to take the job, as he begrudgingly finishes high school. Though his primary aim is to earn money to finance his writing career, he learns a bit about the quirks of smalltown living, making a few friends and enemies along the way. The book centers on the year he spends teaching children some not much younger than he is in a provincial town in northern Norway. Part four of Knausgaard s sprawling autobiographical novel gives a clear picture of narrator Karl Ove s late teenage years and his transition from the reckless abandon of youth to the responsibilities and demands of adulthood.
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