My Struggle - vol. 1

Winner of the 2009 Brage Award
Winner of the Book of the Year 2009 Award in Morgenbladet
Winner of the 2010 P2 Listeners' Prize
Winner of the Sørlandet Literary Prize 2010 (for MY STRUGGLE 1-3)
Nominated for the 2010 Nordic Council's Literary Prize
Nominated for the 2009 Norwegian Critics' Prize
Nominated for the 2009 Youth Critics' Prize
Nominated for the 2009 Booksellers' Prize

“Today is the 27th of February 2008. The time is 23:43. I, who am writing this, Karl Ove Knausgård, was born in December 1968, and am thus at the time of writing 39 years old. I have three children; Vanja, Heidi and John, and am married for the second time, to Linda Boström Knausgård. All four are asleep in the rooms around me, in a flat in Malmö, Sweden, where we have lived for 18 months. With the exception of some of the parents of the children in Vanja and Heidi’s nursery, we don’t know anyone here. That is not a loss, at least not to me; social life gives me nothing anyway. I never say what I really think, what I really mean, but always adjust my opinions according to the person I am talking to at any given time, pretending to be interested in what they are telling me, apart from when I drink, when I usually go too far the other way, only to wake up to the angst of transgression, something that has only intensified over the years, and now can last for weeks. When I drink, I also get blackouts, and lose control of my actions, which usually become desperate and idiotic, but also now and then desperate and dangerous. That is why I don’t drink anymore. I don’t want anyone to reach me; I don’t want anyone to see me. That is what must have marked my face, that is what must have made it so stiff and mask-like, and almost impossible to associate with me when I happen to come across it in a street window.”

The greatest enigma in his life is his own father. Now he himself is a father, and all he wants to achieve in that role is that his own children do not fear him.

Almost ten years have passed since Karl Ove Knausgård’s father drank himself to death, and Karl Ove is struggling to write his third novel. He wants it to be a great masterpiece, but he is constantly haunted by self-doubt, and spends days making up unflattering epitaphs about himself.

From his present frustrations with his own writing and his relationship with his family, Karl Ove’s mind wanders back to the time when his father was his age, and to his own childhood. He was a serious and often troubled boy, with a happier and more uncomplicated brother, a mild and loving, yet almost invisible mother, and a distant and unpredictable father. A father whose early death spurred highly ambivalent emotions of relief and the profoundest grief – feelings the main character is still struggling to come to terms with.

The six novels of the My Struggle cycle can be read independently or as one hugely ambitious project. This breathtaking cycle has been the greatest literary sensation in Norway in decades, and the total print run has passed 400.000 copies for the first 5 volumes. The books have spurred a heated literary debate about the use of autobiographical elements in fiction, and about literary criticism in general. In addition to amazing reviews and several awards and nominations, this fascinating literary experiment has generated an enormous interest among journalists, critics and readers, resulting in hundreds of articles, commentaries, essays, blog posts and discussions.

Constantly wavering between megalomania and extreme self-depreciation, Knausgård writes about his present life, his teenage years, his childhood, his struggle to write his first book, his father’s death, the birth of his first child, his burning wish to write truly great literature, his boredom from changing his children’s nappies – relentlessly revealing his never-ending craving for his father’s approval, and his own endless talent for self-doubt.

Breaking his own life story down to its elementary particles, Karl Ove Knausgård embarks on a Proustian exploration of his past, creating a universal story of the struggles - great and small - that we all face in our lives. My Struggle is a profoundly serious, gripping and hugely readable work written as if the author's very life were at stake. A painfully honest confession, an unparalleled and shocking achievement, an addictive read, a literary suicide, an ambitious piece of hyper-realism, a stunningly original success.

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Praise for My Struggle - First Book:

“A rare feat. No one of his generation has attained Karl Ove Knausgård’s combination of talent for storytelling, style, power of observation and original thought … The first volume of My Struggle has thus become a book you are unsure whether to read quickly to discover what happens, or slowly to enjoy every single sentence … It is impossible to tell, before the entire work is completed, whether his extraordinarily ambitious project will succeed. However, if anyone has the knack for narrative, the form, the wealth of ideas and the power of observation to manage it, then that person has to be Karl Ove Knausgård.”
(Dagens Næringsliv, Norway)

“Varied, vivid and shocking. The first volume in a total of six forming the novelMy Struggledraws the reader into its text and life with an irresistible power … tremendous writing …  a thoroughly crafted novel … gripping, poignant, and at the same time both painful and bitter … The only thing to do is to anticipate and look forward to the continuation. And since there is a great deal to read, my recommendation is to start on the first book as soon as you can.”
(Aftenposten, Norway)

“The most important question is: after reading the first 450 pages of Karl Ove Knausgård’s 2,700-page novel based on his own life, do you want more? The answer: YES! Literature is most often over-rated. Karl Ove Knausgård is not in that category … irresistible literary clarity … It is a testimony to Karl Ove Knausgård’s quite exceptional abilities as a storyteller that, after only a few pages, both the subject matter and the literary form feel like the most natural thing in the world.”
(Dagbladet, Norway)

“It is a privilege to read great literature. It is even better to be allowed to write about it.  And when the same work simply continues and continues, in book after book over a period of many years and not yet ended, well, then it is difficult for a critic to restrain his beating heart to enable him to explain to newspaper readers why this is such a good … literary work of art. Knausgård’s intense, hungry prose propels the reader forward …  a fantastic novel, the third in a literary project which seems to go through a continual process of metamorphosis … I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it.”
(Dagsavisen, Norway)

“Impressive accomplishment … What truly raises the novel is Knausgård’s use of autobiographical detail … In My Struggle I Knausgård challenges literary conventions in a way that ensures the reader really looks forward to the sequel.”
(Bergens Tidende, Norway)

“Shocking reading … one of the most ambitious, vulnerable projects in Norwegian literature … the most original and promising Norwegian author of his generation … in his almost seamless blend of expository passages about life and art, flashbacks and scenes from an upbringing and preparations for a funeral, My Struggle can be read as a novel about a writer sitting in judgement on himself and his relationship to those closest to him …  a boost for the Norwegian novel as a form of expression. So long, so painful, and so good.”
(Adresseavisen, Norway)

“Knausgård has tackled a risky project yet again, and yet again has succeeded in captivating the reader … This novel is a tremendously powerful, even agonising, story about a father and son … here the quantity is quite clearly part of the quality … the final verdict after the first volume therefore has to be: Knausgård has once again landed on his feet after a reckless leap.”
(NRK, Norway)

“A triumphant novel … the first book in Karl Ove Knausgård’s six-volume novel My Struggle heralds a victory for the art of novel writing. Karl Ove Knausgård has distinguished himself as a groundbreaking writer who crosses all boundaries … The language is actually Knausgård’s greatest advantage, together with psychological insight and uncompromising storytelling … he has written a great work of literature … A Norwegian Proust? On the basis of this first outing, the author manages to make ‘Karl Ove Knausgård’ a person I want to read more about.”
(Vårt land, Norway)

“Knausgård has produced a literary work which goes beyond most of what has been created until now … phenomenal reading … Reading the first volume arouses hunger and anticipation … It is difficult to put this book down … The author already reveals his accomplishment in his plan for the novel … Stylistically, Knausgård is unique in Norwegian literature … Quite frequently, the language breaks out into poetic flowering. Knausgård provides descriptions of nature comparable with those of Hamsun …  there is a great deal of poetry here, and some fantastically delicious audacity, as well as humour, in fact …  The book is devised and executed on a grand scale … a ferocious narrative, contained within language I revelled in from beginning to end, and I simply cannot wait to continue. It takes an uncommonly good writer to have something important to confide and also be able to express it in such a way that the reader simply wants more. In this book, we encounter that kind of writer.”
6/6 (Fædrelandsvennen, Norway)

“Knausgård takes a chance and succeeds in writing about his subject matter as though he is the very first person to write about it … an author with such colossal ambitions, and such great talent to live up to them … Before I realise it myself, I am captivated and do not want to put this book down … I sit there searching far back in my own chaotic memory to recall when I was last looking forward so much to a book as to the next volume of this one.”
(Morgenbladet, Norway)

“I cannot remember when I last read a Norwegian novel that made such a strong impression on me as the first book in Karl Ove Knausgård’s apparently uninhibited six-volume work, My Struggle. It is simultaneously so appallingly painful and of such sensationally high literary quality that it further illustrates what an unrivalled position Knausgård occupies in contemporary Norwegian literature. In addition to his prose being exceptionally good and the level of reflection in the novel towering above run-of-the-mill Norwegian novels, the author writes about the complexity and tenderness of human relationships in a way extremely few can imitate.  I still cannot quite manage to escape the thought that 2,500 pages is almost shockingly comprehensive, demonstrating a level of ambition and self-confidence bordering on the arrogant. However, I have no problem in saying that I think the first volume of My Struggle is an instant classic in Norwegian literature.” 
(Kulturtips, Dagbladet, Norway)

“A novel project of exceptional self-exposure … Knausgård is enormously ambitious … there is a great deal to celebrate here in the many aspects of detailed perception, gleeful and caustic recognition, and glorious expressions no one has ever seen before.”
(Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway)

“My Struggle is an immensely comprehensive, well written exposure of the author’s personal life and an existential literary experiment without parallel in Norwegian literature … Knausgård writes about the contemporary collective repression of death, and he succeeds exceptionally well.”
(Klassekampen, Norway)

“A cruel yet beautiful narrative … With My Struggle, Knausgård has decided to write something quite unique. It is liberating to see him fulfil his promise to such an extent with the first 435 pages of altogether 2,700 pages about his own life … an unusually frank book … What has characterised Karl Ove Knausgård’s literary output even from his very first book,Out of the World, is an uncommon talent for serving up such recognisable passages, such accurate descriptions and in a form of language you would never believe possible. Knausgård has a unique ability to make what he is writing about momentous … brilliant literature … The first volume stands on its own perfectly … There is nothing better than this written in Norwegian at the moment.”
6/6 (ABC Nyheter, Norway)

“a work unprecedented in the history of Norwegian literature … Knausgård creates, with the aid of an endless stream of concise episodes related in scintillatingly clear language, an entire net formed of strands of the plot, which from beginning to end is great novel writing … can lead you to think of Marcel Proust’s life’s work, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu … with My Struggle I, Knausgård has laid the foundations for a literary cathedral. He is on the track of a work no reader should let slip.”
(Moss Avis, Norway)

“The introduction of  a kind of literary programme and the depiction of his relationship with his father and of his father’s death, made the first volume of My Struggle the Norwegian literary event of the year.”
(Adresseavisen, Norway)

“Karl Ove Knausgård’s six-volume novel is a daredevil feat without parallel in Norwegian literature.”
(Arendals Tidende, Norway)

“The first book in Karl Ove Knausgård’s gigantic project about himself, which will comprise six enormous volumes in all. He pores over his life with a magnifying glass. It is intimate and agonising, with some passages absolutely unbelievably well written. The first volume deals with Knausgård’s relationship with his father and his father’s death.”
(Selection of the best novels of the decade 1999-2009, VG, Norway)

 “This book is already a modern classic as well as a power, ul indication of the greatness of Knausgard’s forthcoming project.”
6/6 (Agderposten, Norway)

“Neither surpassed nor equaled ... By going into his own life so deeply and in so much detail, Knausgård ultimately writes powerful and moving books in which most people can recognise themselves. Beautiful prose and profound humanity.”
(Kåre Bulie about My Struggle I-III, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, Dagbladet, Norway)

“This autumn, many people have readMy Strugglein the same way as we watch television series: insatiable, in continuous fresh helpings, imprinted on our own daily lives day by day, month by month. Read Knausgård for the reflections about memory and family, art and life, for the descriptions of the clouds in the sky and the people on the streets, for the text’s manipulation of time and space, fiction and non-fiction, personal and non-personal. There are still new ways for literature to exist in the world.”
(Trygve Riiser Gundersen about My Struggle I-III, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, Dagbladet, Norway)

“Brilliant start to a giant autobiographical novel cycle. This is magnificent and at the same time indefensible literature, and paradoxically enough that is exactly the reason for its powerful attraction. The whole concept is horrendously risky, but on the page Knausgård transforms this risk into tension of the most outstanding character. The first volume has classic literary appeal, with extreme pace in the narrative, shocking moments and original reflection.”
(Ingunn Økland, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, Aftenposten, Norway)

“The obvious Norwegian number one of the year will, with his definitive ‘masterpiece of reality’ make a deeper impression than most others this decade. Knausgård’s sensitivity and powers of observation are overwhelming. The text has a rare strong stamp of authenticity because Knausgård depicts his own life in a way that is shockingly candid and uncompromisingly authentic.”
(Per Kristian Bjørkeng, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, Aftenposten, Norway)

“A self-revealing novel with universal appeal. An obsessive reading experience surpassing most others in its ambition and execution.”
(Ane Farsethås about My Struggle I-III, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, Dagens Næringsliv, Norway)

“A fantastic, trailblazing literary project!”
(Ingvar Ambjørnsen about My Struggle I-II, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, VG, Norway)

“An absolutely unique reading experience, written with intensity and ambition.”
(Guri Hjeltnes, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, VG, Norway)

“Knausgård’s crazy six-volume project begins in the best possible way, and finishes with a fierce and uncomfortable confrontation with his father.”
(Morten Abrahamsen, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, VG, Norway)

“Autobiographical or not –Knausgård depicts his upbringing and human understanding with great literary qualities.”
(Mari Nymoen Nilsen, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, VG, Norway)

“Knausgård’s writing shatters the relationship between literature and the general public. Everyone who reads this novel runs the risk of being wounded. That is exactly why it is worth reading. It is an immensely comprehensive, well written exposure of the author’s personal life and an existential literary experiment without parallel in Norwegian literature. Knausgård writes about the contemporary collective repression of death, and he succeeds exceptionally well, from an aesthetic point of view.”
(Favourites of 2009, about My Struggle I-III, Klassekampen, Norway)

“The quality of the writing is unparalleled  in contemporary Norwegian literature … this is the most enthralling reading experience of the year.”
(Emil Otto Syvertsen, the Critics’ Favourites of 2009, Fædrelandsvennen, Norway)

“Unbelievably exciting … Knausgård’s own identity is exposed so nakedly, vulnerably and emotionally that he succeeds, better than the majority of his peers, in conveying what it means to be human … Expressed in language that not only ensures you are looking forward to the next book, but also dreading the day it comes to an end.”
6/6 (Haugesunds Avis, Norway)

“A very promising struggle … You are not many pages into the first volume before the narrator hooks you in– without you even really noticing it. Knausgård’s prose is fairly straightforward. However, it is extremely precise and detailed … the authorial voice in Knausgård’s novel lays himself open to the kind of self-examination reminiscent of a writer such as Witold Gombrowicz … As in so many autobiographical novels, we also find in My Struggle two different types of time. There is a ‘past’ … and a ‘present’ …  However, both aspects are written together, properly and to begin with almost unnoticeably … Everything in a life is connected, and one person’s life is a part of other people’s.  What frightens me within myself is perhaps not even my own … The text has integrity. I have no idea what direction it will take in the next five volumes … Yet I know enough to say that I will certainly read My Struggle II.”
(Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, about the Norwegian edition)

“What is imprinted on Karl Ove Knausgård’s face is, of course, life, what he has been given and what he has carved out for himself. The fundamental purpose of literature is to personify that, to give scope for a condensing of life. However there are few, not to say no one else at the moment, who succeed in executing this with such drive and unflinching incisiveness as Karl Ove Knausgård when recording his account of himself. About his personal struggle … The vast majority of novels are competently written. Then there are a number that are really good. And finally there are a few that are unnerving, completely engrossing, artistic experiences. Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle is in the final category.”
(Gøteborgs-Posten, Sweden, about the Norwegian editions of My Struggle I-III)

“An awe-inspiring novel project that really does not follow the path of least resistance.”
(Kristianstadsbladet, Sweden, about the Norwegian edition)

“Knausgård’s hypnotic flow has such haunting qualities … is so consumed by its ambition to reach the core of existence through writing, that I absolutely have to read the final three parts.”
(Expressen, Sweden on My Struggle I-III)

"An illustrious book"
(Borås Tidning, Sweden)

 “I can’t stop, I want to stop, I can’t stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page …”
(Västerbottens-kuriren, Sweden)

"Let me say it this way: the only thing preventing me from going online and order My Strugglevol. 2 and 3 is that I haveto finish my own book right now, and I knowthat I'm going to drop everything in my hands when the Knausgård package arrives. Then I will read like a madwoman. Because vol. 1 was like this: preferably no break before I had read the last word of the last meaning. (...) I was hooked. (...) By the way, just in case I didn't make myself clear: My Struggle - First Bookwas great."
(Bokhora.se, a Swedish blog about literature)

“Knausgård is huge, not only in the number of pages, but as a writerand a researcher of mood … He has the words for every occasion, he composes with amazing leaps and bounds, and in his new novel series he is creating not only a detailed picture of Scandinavia in the era from 1970 onwards but also a self portrait, both personal and professional.”
(Politiken, Denmark, about the Norwegian edition)

“In recent years, when we at Jyllands-Posten’s morning paper have awarded stars, it has happened on two occasions that I have needed to give six at one time. When Celine’s North was finally published in Danish – and when the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård’s second novel, A Time for Everything, bowled me over with his weighty, intemperate ambition and intense writing. I asserted at that time – perhaps too kindly – that the book was an historic event in Scandinavian literature. All the same, one can say with quiet confidence that Knausgård’s third novel, My Struggle, is an historic novel … Like other reviewers before me, I shower it with superlatives and award six stars after reading the first instalment at least of the planned six volumes, the subject of this review."
6/6 (Jyllands-Posten,  Denmark)

“The first half of the book concerns itself with the teenage years and is fantastic in its recreation of atmosphere and its composition, combining past and present, narrative and essay-like sections dealing with death, literature and art. Here the novel places itself in relation to the great art of novel writing in the works of, for example, Marcel Proust, Robert Musil and Thomas Mann by manifesting itself as both narrative and reflective … And yes indeed, Knausgård’s sharp pen cuts deeply. However we, those who are not involved, can be nothing but delighted by how masterfully Knausgård succeeds in creating a work of art out of what is personal and private.”
6/6 (Berlingske Tidende, Denmark)

"Knausgård skilfully explores great literary themes: all those good and bad father/son relationships throughout the history of literature, from Hamlet to Kafka, and Knausgård exploits a form which calls to mind the megalomaniac novel above all, Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. The Norwegian public have fallen on their knees in awe for this ambitious author, and with good reason (…) Knausgård’s realism and literary skills are (…) raw and fearless. His depiction of the sorrow the two brothers experience after their father’s death hits the reader like a heavy punch to the stomach. It picks a fight with the greatest and most serious things in life (…) Karl Ove Knausgård’s Struggle is a triumph for the art of the novel."
(Information, Denmark)

“Knausgård’s novel is a pure delight to read. Forget all the hype surrounding My Struggle and read it as the outstanding novel it is … How much he resembles the Knausgård who lives in Lund with his wife and three children, is of absolutely no interest in this regard.  We are talking here of literature: essays, reminiscences and fiction of the finest kind. I am looking forward to the next volume of My Struggle."
6/6 (Politiken, Denmark)

”Grand literature and grand scandal. [My Struggle I] didn’t get the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize, even though it most definitely deserved to … The further into this work you get – also the following volumes – the more it strikes you what a thought through and devious work this is.”
(Weekendavisen, Denmark)

“The scandalous Norwegian author spares no one in his autobiographical masterpiece … Some books continue to work away inside you long after the final page is read. The Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård’s autobiographical novelMy Struggle Iis such a book … Knausgård is a remarkable storyteller, who in flashes of memory saturated in emotion breathes life into the traumas of the past … A shockingly good book.”
6/6 (Ekstra bladet, Denmark)

“Seldom has a book of reminiscence filled the reader’s consciousness so much as the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgard’sMy Struggle. The personal material is a rope round the neck, a knife in the heart. Nevertheless, the book is so full of magic. Sometimes the world simply opens up, in a beautiful balance between cause and effect. That’s how it is with the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård’s memoir ... a fierce and clever, and fiercely clever read.”
(Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmark)

“If you can relate to narrative as a work of art, then a brilliant read awaits”
(Fyens Stiftstidende, Denmark) 

“It is curiously gripping to leaf through these 435 pages of exasperating recollections. Knausgård writes clear, artless prose. Alternates elegantly among three forms: expository, semi-philosophical meditations on events …, lengthy, elaborate dialogues and good old-fashioned descriptions of nature and environment, heavily laden with psychology. Knausgård writes with an insistent presence and employs a radical sense of intimacy. It is (trite though it may be to say so) spellbinding to follow the lives being led …  until now, three volumes have been published, and I am looking forward avidly to the sequel.”
(Lars Frost, litteraturnu.dk, Denmark, about the Norwegian edition)

“Knausgård writes exceedingly well. He writes with great intensity and presence. There is a terrific precision in the language he uses and this is not diminished by the fact that his prose, in the main, is entirely free of metaphors. The author has a tremendous talent for providing the apparently trivial and boring with a powerful significance.  The many layers of detailed description give way to the most thrilling precipices. They suddenly open up beneath the life lies and the old family anecdotes … As a whole, the novel is crammed full of divine comedies and extremely human tragedies.”
(Hufvudstadsbladet, Finland, about the Norwegian edition)

"Knausgård's thinking is magnificently unbridled; [it is] a veritable flood of thoughts. His description of life in all its variety is undaunted and confident."
(FAZ, Germany)

"In his rendering of factual events, Knausgård is a consistently realistic narrator. His reflections, on the other hand, are of seething intelligence and have an almost hypnotic effect."
(WDR 5, Germany)

"This is a deeply touching book, free of taboos, its evocative descriptions bombarding the reader with questions."
(NDR Kultur, Germany)

"There are books that will always stay with you. Karl Ove Knausgård's sentences have a magic pull that is difficult to escape."
(NDR 90,3, Germany)

"Between Proust and the woods - allow yourselves to be seduced by a Norwegian life[…]Like granite; precise and forceful. More real than reality."
(La Repubblica, Italy)

“The recital of a life, with its banality, tragedy, disappointment and treachery […] may be futile, but in Karl Ove Knausgård's hands it is given meaning and a distinct charm […]My Struggle  has already received wide acclaim, thanks to a passionate and scorching narrative style, that surprises with deep and original observations. A relentless river of words flows effortlessly and naturally from the author, which after having captured the reader in its mighty current, brings him to the last page […] Knausgård has thrown himself into an insane project, with a disdain for conventions that only true geniuses are able to obtain: simply to tell one's own life, a life that so far is neither especially spectacular nor unique, in a series of six expansive volumes[…]My Struggle  is a literary victory.“
(Affari italiani, Italy)

“the strength of this work is that it is capable of portrayinganyexistence as significant, in all its everyday banality. My Struggle is therefore initially a narrative mechanism in a hyper-realistic self-fiction where each and every detail is given emphasis and importance, in line with a clear poetic willingness to depict the world to own it. Certainly, Knausgård's strength lies in his detailed descriptions of nature and the human psyche. But it is the gravity and truth occurring between the lines that makes this text authentic and necessary.”
(WUZ, Italy)

“A relentless book, that embellishes nothing, but also a sincere quest, which proves that raw life, if told well, can yield a beautiful story”
(de Volkskrant, Netherlands)

“Knausgård hits bulls eye with his autobiographical novel My Struggle I”
(Trouw, Netherlands)

“A literary rock star … An unprecedented literary project”
(HP/DeTijd, Netherlands)

“Karl Ove Knausgård achieved a huge success with his autobiographical series of novels Min Kamp [.] a rockstar of Nordic literature”
(De Morgen, Netherlands)

“This autobiographical novel sneaks up on you and gets under your skin. The 43 year old Norwegian describes his inner battles in a unique and painfully accurate way, [.] What a beautiful novel”
(Esta, Netherlands)

“painful, touching, honest and full of insight. And yes, recognizable too - but it's more than that. It's like Knausgård turns himself inside out and shows that side of himself that no man ever shows to anyone, which you might not even be able to describe in words. But he is, and he does it very impressively [.] In The Netherlands he will rock on, no doubt”
(Zin Magazine, Netherlands)

First published: 2009, Oktober
Karl Ove Knausgård: Biography and bibliography

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