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My Struggle: Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgaard (2016, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSteerforth Press
ISBN-100914671391
ISBN-139780914671398
eBay Product ID (ePID)217172138
Product Key Features
Original LanguageNorwegian
Book TitleMy Struggle: Book Five
Number of Pages626 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Family Life, Biographical, Historical
Publication Year2016
GenreFiction
AuthorKarl Ove Knausgaard
Book SeriesMy Struggle Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2 in
Item Weight32.9 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-049328
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our time." - The Guardian "Intense and vital... Knausgaard is utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties... Superb, lingering, celestial passages... [with] what Walter Benjamin called the 'epic side of truth, wisdom'." - James Wood, The New Yorker "My Struggle is candid and compulsively readable, with moments of searing insight and bold shifts through narrative time. Its scope is both ambitious and modest; its range aggressive and tender." -VICE "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... Arrestingly beautiful." - Leland de la Durantaye, The New York Times Book Review "With each subsequent book of his that is translated into English, Mr. Knausgaard continues to solidify his reputation as one of the most vital writers working today." - The Observer " My Struggle is unexpectedly entrancing - the combination of detail and intimacy creates an illusion of being inside somebody else's brain... My Struggle is worth the, uh, struggle." - GQ "Karl Ove Knausgaard. My Struggle . It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack." -Zadie Smith "Knausgaard pushed himself to do something that hadn't quite been done before. He broke the sound barrier of the autobiographical novel." - Jeffrey Eugenides "By exposing every last detail of his life, Karl Ove Knausgaard became your favorite author's new favorite author." -Evan Hughes, The New Republic "If the function of literature is to take you out of your own life and involve you in someone else's then My Struggle is literature... gripping. " --The Sunday Times "A masterpiece of staggering originality, the literary event of the century... Life here and now, examined at a fever pitch, daily recollections recounted in exhausting but exhilarating detail." -- The Wichita Eagle "So what is it that has led fellow authors to rave about Knausgaard and hail him as literary pioneer? The answer lies in the intensity of focus he brings to the subject of his life. He seems to punch a hole in the wall between the writer and reader, breaking through to a form of micro-realism and emotional authenticity that makes other novels seem contrived, 'made up', irrelevant... Whether he's writing about his adult alienation at a toddler's birthday party or the memory of trying to get hold of alcohol as a teenager on New Year's Eve, Knausgaard is prepared to go into extraordinary sensuous detail... the overall effect is utterly hypnotic." -Andrew Anthony, The Observer
Series Volume Number5
Dewey Decimal839.82/374
SynopsisThe fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Book Five is also a book about strong new friendships and a shattering love affair. Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: his father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel.
LC Classification NumberPT8951.21.N38M5713
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- 04 Jan, 2022
An original biography of then perils and struggles life thrusts upon us
Karl Ove knocks it out of the park again, the six book series of "My Struggle" are all written with lot's of genuine truth and originality. The author has written for his audience, to share and experience all of his struggles and victories, as we are able to relate to Karl ove.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
