Knausgård would call his friend and fellow writer Geir Angell Øygarden daily and read the work aloud. He wrote mainly to break his block with the other novel and thought that there would not be an audience for the work. History Īs he struggled to write a novel about his relationship with his father, Knausgård set upon a new project in early 2008: to write less stylistically and deliberately, and instead to "write plainly about his life". The books have led some of his relatives to make public statements against their inclusion in Knausgård's novels. Though categorized as fiction, the books situate Knausgård as the protagonist and his actual relatives as the cast, with their names mostly unchanged. The series is 3,600 pages long, and was finished when Knausgård was in his forties. In 2014 it had sold nearly 500,000 copies in Norway, or one copy for every nine Norwegian adults, and was published in 22 languages. My Struggle is a six-book autobiographical series by Karl Ove Knausgård outlining the "banalities and humiliations of his life", his private pleasures, and his dark thoughts the first of the series was published in 2009.
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