A living hero who landed on greatness by abandoning every typical literary feint, an emperor whose nakedness surpasses royal finery. I can t wait for the translator to finish the last three volumes Jonathan Lethem, Guardian
Karl Ove Knausgaard s six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle is one of the most absorbing literary projects of recent times, one that has seen the Norwegian writer dubbed the Scandinavian Proust Spectator
Revolutionaryâ¦addictive and hypnotic Paris Review
Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties, unafraid to appear naïve or awkward New Yorker
Via his visceral, immersive art, Knausgaard makes the heart visible Boyd Tonkin Independent
There is no doubt that My Struggle has been bought at a price, both for the author and his loved ones, but for the reader, there is the thrill of confronting a passionate writer who is prepared to take such risks, to try to show his face as it is, rather than as he wishes it were. Hari Kunzru, Guardian
The locations and details may be unique, but it is Knausgaard s gift to make of this unsparing specificity something universal The Times
Why would you read a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel? The short answer is that it is breathtakingly good, and so you cannot stop yourself, and would not want to New York Times Book Review
