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Archipelago Books

My Struggle: Book Three

My Struggle: Book Three

by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

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On the heels of the first two volumes of the internationally celebrated My Struggle series, Book Three finds us in the sensuous realm of Karl Ove’s childhood. A family of four — mother, father, and two boys — move to the southern coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It’s the early 1970s and the family’s trajectory: upwardly mobile. The future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Book Three gives us Knausgaard's vivid recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multi-layered nature of memory and existence.

Additional Book Information

Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9781935744863
Pages: 432
Publication Date:

Praise

What’s notable is Karl Ove’s ability, rare these days, to be fully present in and mindful of his own existence. Every detail is put down without apparent vanity or decoration, as if the writing and the living are happening simultaneously. There shouldn’t be anything remarkable about any of it except for the fact that it immerses you totally. You live his life with him.
—Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books

Knausgaard . . . strips away the literary tricks, bursts through language, explodes artifice . . . Honest and wise . . . rare properties in contemporary writing . . . Book Two sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist and not just a tetchy complainer. He wants to create great art, and he wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.
—James Wood, The New Yorker

...My Struggle is a revolutionary novel that is highly approachable, even thrilling to read. The book feels like a masterpiece—one of those genuinely surprising works that alters the tradition it inherited.
—Meghan O'Rourke, Bookforum

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