![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Details pile up early on: his mother’s keys lying on the telephone table, a ceramic vase of dried flowers, the sound of the protagonist’s eight-year-old feet on the shingles and his father’s subsequent anger. The ambition is enormous, and the work follows through on it. Starfish-like, Knausgaard wraps his mind around a thousand remembered moments and pulls them back into the great gut of his autobiographical novel. My Struggle, Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlettīook One of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s much-discussed six-volume series, Min kamp (My Struggle), captures the pulse and tempo of being alive. ![]()
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