I hadn’t seen the James Wood review in The New Yorker (didn’t skim it until after I wrote a draft of this review), but I’ve long been a lover of the look and feel of Archipelago’s books and I’m an Anselm Kiefer fan (there’s a Kiefer on the cover).įiction is fact selected, understood, arranged, and charged with purpose, Thomas Wolfe asserted, but Knausgaard’s acknowledged precedent is Proust. Within a week of each other my mother and a grad school friend recommended this to me, both calling it “up my alley,” maybe because it’s a literary autobiography unafraid of piling on detail and ripping off pages of dense, insightful exposition. Translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett If you’ve been avoiding the annual hype since 2012 but now find yourself KOK curious, welcome to 12K+ words collecting impressions from one reader’s experience: Book One: A Death in the Family You’ve heard about Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume My Struggle series.
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