![]() Through these pieces of the physical world, Knausgaard ruminates on the meaning-charged world that a child inhabits, and one senses that part of the “struggle” of the adult is that of finding a balance where meaning exists but does not terrorize, as happened in his childhood: “I knew his moods and had learned how to predict them long ago. 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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