My Struggle, Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle, Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
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My Struggle, Book 1

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 16 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/23/2015


Synopsis

My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues-death, love, art, fear-and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.

About Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first-ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. The My Struggle cycle of novels has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it has appeared, and the first volume was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on August 11, 2015

I sat, leaning slightly forward, and continued to stare at the screen, but I could think of nothing to say. I shifted my weight, trying to find a more comfortable position, and scratched my head, using my left hand; my right shoulder had still not completely recovered from the skiing accident I had......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on November 29, 2022

Karl Ove Knausgaard - Norwegian novelist born in 1968 This first volume of the author's novel captures episodes in his life, usually as a boy growing up but sometimes events in his twenties and thirties and also reflections as he writes in his forties, through a particular lens: the poignant emotions......more

Goodreads review by Baba on December 10, 2022

This is the first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle, a magnus opus which as wonderfully put by the New York Times is essentially a "six volume, 3,600 page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six volume, 3,600 page Norwegian novel." There's been a death in Karl's family and semi-stream of......more