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The Joy of Knausgaard

  • Jake Slovis
  • April 27, 2015
For Flavorwire, Jonathon Sturgeon works to define “contemporary” literature and wonders where Karl Knausgaard’s My Struggle fits into the mix. What he ultimately argues is that contemporary literature is often “project based,” and that…
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Stranger than Fiction

  • Roxie Pell
  • January 27, 2015
The death of the novel has been argued and rebutted and argued again. Drawing from David Shields‘s book of literary criticism, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, Alexander Nazaryan wonders whether the…
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The New Proust

  • Guia Cortassa
  • November 6, 2014
I’m a Proustian in that sense, I believe in memories outside of consciousness, and this is just a way to find them. Writing is a way to get access to…
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Critics vs. Copies

  • Diksha Basu
  • July 25, 2014
Have you actually read Knausgaard or have you only read about Knausgaard? The sales numbers don’t seem to support the phenomenon that this Norwegian writer has become. For the New York…
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Knausguaard as a Lady

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 10, 2014
Katie Roiphe of Slate has some ideas about what Knausgaard’s critically acclaimed work would be like if, instead, he was a woman. I imagine to this committed Knausgaardians would say…
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My Struggle Books One–Three by Karl Ove Knausgaard

  • Joseph Olshan
  • June 17, 2014
Joseph Olshan reviews MY STRUGGLE (Books One - Three) by Karl Ove Knausgaard today in The Rumpus Books.
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Struggling with Titles

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 16, 2014
Karl Ove Knausgaard has been making waves with his six-part book My Struggle. The popular series shares a title with another famous book, Mein Kampf, Hitler’s treatise written from his prison…
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The Writer’s Writer

  • Diksha Basu
  • May 23, 2014
Karl Ove Knausgaard, the handsome Norwegian writer, is traveling through the U.S. giving talks and readings and interviews. It’s as good a time as any to start reading his 6-part…
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The Personal Becomes Public

  • Sarah Edwards
  • April 10, 2014
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s magnum-opus, My Struggle, is an unflinching and exhaustive chronicle of a modern life. Interviews with the Norwegian writer are equally as vulnerable and exacting: It is too late to…
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