The extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian)
Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author)
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a
masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The
End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and,
together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard
has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the
Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes
the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star series (The Morning Star,
The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in
thirty-five languages.
Martin Aitken (Translator)
Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature number some
35 books. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the
International DUBLIN Literary Award (2017) and the U.S. National
Book Awards (2018), as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize.
He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019.
For all its complexity, My Struggle achieves something pretty
simple, the thing that enduring fiction has always done: it creates
a world that absorbs you utterly… The End is alive.
*Sunday Times*
Knausgaard’s rendering of this crisis – the jitteriness, the
relentlessness with which he goes over events again and again, his
overwhelming sense of transgression and shame – is riveting… Every
changed nappy, every cigarette smoked on the balcony, every cup of
coffee poured from that damn vacuum jug is another alibi; the
creation of the normal life that distracts from the roiling mess
within... That we cannot quite name what we’ve experienced is part
of the brilliance.
*Guardian*
The End is woven of a man’s love for his family and his obsession
with the solitary writing life, the warp and weft of these
contradictory passions sometimes meshing together perfectly… My
Struggle is a cultural moment worth getting involved in. The six
volumes offer something special: total immersion in the soap opera
of another person’s life.
*The Times*
A uniquely compelling and absorbing reading experience… captivating
interplay between banality and beauty, the redundant and the
sublime.
*New Statesman*
Compulsively addictive… His way of describing “reality as it is” is
to expand the range of thoughts and actions, however mundane or
shameful, that a human being will publicly admit to.
*Daily Telegraph*
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