My Struggle Book 1
by Karl Ove Knausgard · 2009
Literary Fiction · ranked #100 in category
Knausgård spent six years writing six volumes of minute, unsparing autobiography — covering his childhood in Norway, his difficult relationship with his alcoholic father, his family life and creative struggle. The first volume ranges across time and registers, introducing the obsessive intimacy and formal ambition that makes My Struggle one of the defining literary projects of recent decades.
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