{"product_id":"my-struggle-book-one-9780914671008","title":"My Struggle: Book One","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlmost ten years have passed since Karl Ove Knausgaards father drank himself to death. Vulnerable and assailed by doubts  he is now embarking on a new novel. With an uncanny eye for detail  Knausgaard breaks down his own life story to its elementary particles  reliving memories  reopening wounds  and examining with candor the turbulence and the epiphanies that emerge from his own experience of fatherhood  the fallout in the wake of his fathers death  and his visceral connection to music  art  and literature. Karl Oves dilemmas strike nerves that give us raw glimpses of our particular moment in history as we witness what happens to the sensitive and churning mind of a young man trying- as if his very life depended on it- to find his place in the disjointed world around him. This Proustian masterpiece opens a window into one of the most original minds writing today.  Intense and vital... The need for totality . . . brings superb  lingering  celestial passages . . . The concluding sentences of the book are placid  plain  achieved. They have what Walter Benjamin called the epic side of truth  wisdom. --James Wood  The New Yorker  \"While not unconcerned with finding objective truth in the moments he recounts  Mr. Knausgaard aims first to simply record them  to try to shape the banal into something worth remembering. Beautifully rendered and  at times  painfully observant  his book does a superlative job of finding that \"inner core of human existence.\" --The Wall Street Journal  Steadily absorbing  lit up by pages of startling insight and harrowing honesty  My Struggle introduces into world literature a singular character and immerses us in his fascinating Underground Man consciousness. -- Philip Lopate  Karl Ove--with his shyness  his passion  his honesty--can take on any subject and make it his own. -- Edmund White  I read both books One and Two hungrily and find myself already missing Knausgaard just a few days after turning A Man in Loves last page  searching the Web for inexpensive crash courses in Norwegian  mostly just wishing Volume Three were available in English now. --Jonathan Callahan  The Millions  Knausgaards preternatural facility for description  the dreamy thickness of his prose  speaks not only to the sheer pleasure his fiction affords  but to the philosophical stakes of that pleasure. -- Mark Sussman  Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529642074165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0914671006","price":251.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780914671008.jpg?v=1780940252","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/my-struggle-book-one-9780914671008","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}