The struggle in Karl Ove Knausgaard's 'My Struggle'

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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