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Knausgaard6/19/2023 Bookshops are full of unflinching memoirs, and even the literary novel is no stranger to the genre. And given the size of the undertaking, the widespread critical acclaim and cultural buzz the series has generated, it has strong claim to be the great literary event of the 21st century – so far.Īlthough the series is ostensibly fiction, it is also an unflinching memoir, from early childhood right up to the controversial reception of the book itself. In English, the fourth volume, Dancing in the Dark, is about to be published. It has subsequently been translated into 22 languages. In Knausgaard’s native Norway, where the book was published between 20, it was an unprecedented phenomenon, selling half a million copies in a nation of 5 million people. Yet that is precisely what he did in writing a six-volume, 3,600-page novel-cum-autobiography, provocatively titled My Struggle – or in Norwegian Min Kamp.
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