- Title
- The struggle in Karl Ove Knausgaard's 'My Struggle'
- Creator
- Sala, Michael
- Relation
- New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives p. 82-98
- Relation
- https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/new-and-experimental-approaches-to-writing-lives-9781352007213/
- Publisher
- Red Globe Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The conflict that drives Karl Ove Knausgaard's A Death in the Family: My Struggle: Book 1 (2012) (written in two parts and first published in Swedish as Min Kamp 1), is not the quotidian project emphasised by many critics and reviewers - the protagonist Karl Ove Knausgaard, struggling to deal with the painstaking trivialities of parenthood and his own adolescence - but rather one that relegate these aspects of the book to a preliminary role in the writers intricately staged confrontation with a more fundamental question: How can one write about what is most difficult to relate in one's own life? For Knausgaard, this becomes the struggle to write about his relationship with his father.
- Subject
- Karl Ove Knausgaard; life writing; autobiography; genre
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1474203
- Identifier
- uon:49235
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781352007183
- Language
- eng
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