Min kamp

novel by Knausgaard

Also known as: “A Death in the Family”, “My Struggle”

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Min kamp, translated as My Struggle, is a six-volume autobiographical novel by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard. Published between 2009 and 2011, it became a bestseller in Norway and gained international acclaim. The novel is known for its detailed and unflinching chronicle of the narrator's everyday life, including mundane activities and personal reflections. Knausgaard was inspired to write My Struggle to explore his own life with extreme detail, seeking meaning in ordinary experiences and freeing himself from conventional fictional constraints. His style has been compared to that of Marcel Proust.12

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My Struggle
When the first volume of Min kamp—sometimes titled in English A Death in the Family—was published in Norway, his father’s family threatened him with a lawsuit for his scandalous depiction of his father and grandmother. Yet his readership exploded. Publication of the second volume, whose English-language subtitle is A Man…
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When the first volume of Min kamp—sometimes titled in English A Death in the Family—was published in Norway, his father’s family threatened him with a lawsuit for his scandalous depiction of his father and grandmother. Yet his readership exploded. Publication of the second volume, whose English-language subtitle is A Man…
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