Claus Anderson

Karl Ove Knausgård’s “My Struggle,” a monumental novel in six volumes and more than 3,600 pages, has become the preeminent example of a current autofictional trend. Widely hailed for its heroic exploration of selfhood, compulsive readability, and restless experimentation with form and genre, “My Struggle” provides a sense of authenticity and intimacy that the contemporary novel has long been missing. Through an analysis of Knausgård's extensive use of details and his radical character narration.