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What inspired Karl Ove Knausgaard to write My Struggle?

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Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard was inspired to write his autobiographical novel Min kamp (2009–11; My Struggle) to tell his own life story in excruciating detail and find meaning in ordinary life. Further, he was haunted by incidents in his past and wanted to feel free from conventional fictional constraints.