![]() ![]() ![]() Die Romane seines sechsbändigen, autobiographischen Projektes wurden weltweit zur Sensation. It is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later readers will be left breathlessly demanding more. Karl Ove Knausgård wurde 1968 geboren und gilt als wichtigster norwegischer Autor der Gegenwart. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his novel. My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the. My Struggle: Book 2 is at heart a love story-the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply. ![]() He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. " sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence." -James Wood, The New Yorker In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. ![]()
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