My Struggle, Book One (Paperback)

from MSarki

04/17 100% "This is an amazing book. So unsettling but in a mesmerizing sort of way. It is dreamlike but chock full of reality. I am afraid for my dreams that will come from this heartfelt and painfully serious work of the very first rank." 04/14 69.0% "All this bit about his father dying and the...

from EllieNYC

I won this from LibraryThing but sadly it never arrived. I ended up buying it and loved it from first to last (and through every volume so far published in the US. It's a wonderful book. I'm not completely sure why I loved it so much. The writing is not always smooth-although since I'm reading in...

from ursula

Well, as usual I didn't know a thing about the book going in. Still, it was easy to quickly make a connection between this book of semi-fiction (autobiographical fiction? fictionalized memoir? barely-fiction? more-fiction-than-you-might-think?) and Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and not just be...

from kidzdoc

He had been her first born. Children were not supposed to pre-decease their parents, they weren't supposed to. That was not the idea. And to me, what had Dad been to me? Someone I wished dead. So why all these tears? This almost indescribably rich and unputdownable memoir begins with a riff on de...

from Markus.bauer

Sprachgewaltige Aufarbeitung der Kindheit und dem Sterben des Vaters von Knausgard, die Geschichte entwickelt einen unausweichlichen Sog bis zum Schluss. "Damals hielt ich mich für einen Menschenkenner. Das konnte ich, hatte ich mir damals eingebildet, darin war ich gut: andere zu verstehen. Währ...