My Struggle: Book 1
A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues—death, love, art, fear—and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.
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5 stars cuz Knausgaard’s writing hasn’t declined at all in quality from Book 1 to 2 -
……but just know that my internalized misogyny levels have flown OFF THE FUCKING CHARTS after reading 600 pages that do such a painstakingly competent job in the subject portrayal of “Book 2: A Man In Love”: a mind-numbingly narcissistic, needy, consciously desperate and superciliously liberal (or, as Knausgaard puts it, “Swedish”) cunt, with all the symptomatized trimmings and anxieties that come along with the subject of the modern, over-educated bourgeois of the first world, who is painfully middling in both intellect and cynicism, even when it comes to weaponizing one’s will to power.
I’ll try to forget how compulsive my mutterings of “dumb bitch” were, as I move onto Book 3.
……but just know that my internalized misogyny levels have flown OFF THE FUCKING CHARTS after reading 600 pages that do such a painstakingly competent job in the subject portrayal of “Book 2: A Man In Love”: a mind-numbingly narcissistic, needy, consciously desperate and superciliously liberal (or, as Knausgaard puts it, “Swedish”) cunt, with all the symptomatized trimmings and anxieties that come along with the subject of the modern, over-educated bourgeois of the first world, who is painfully middling in both intellect and cynicism, even when it comes to weaponizing one’s will to power.
I’ll try to forget how compulsive my mutterings of “dumb bitch” were, as I move onto Book 3.
If you are looking for a challenge and interesting book here you go. Karl Ove wrote 5 long ass books about himself. I didn’t know if I liked the book because of all the detail and because I don’t think I like him. I’m currently on the third book. So obviously I am interested in him and his narcissistic ways. I look forward to discussing this with someone and to hear what they say
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