The End
My Struggle: Book 6
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The sixth and final book in Knausgaard's epic My Struggle cycle--the most talked about literary project of its time.
The sprawling, intimate, and spectacularly unorthodox literary autobiography that unleashed a media frenzy upon its release in Norway, became a global publishing sensation, and sold millions of copies worldwide, now reaches its climactic conclusion.
In My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines with ruthless, unsparing rigour his life, his ambitions and frailties, his uncertainties and doubts, and his relationships with friends and exes, his wife and children, his mother and father. It is an opus in which life is described in all its nuances from moments of great drama to the most trivial everyday details. It is also a project that is full of risk, where the borders between private and public worlds cross, not without cost for the author himself and the people portrayed.
The End, the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the earlier volumes, with Knausgaard facing growing literary acclaim and the often shattering repercussions that came with it. It is a book about literature itself and its relationship with reality, the capstone on a magnificent achievement. Translated from the Norwegian by superstar literary translators Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken.
About this Author
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win The Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears.
Format: Trade paperback
Series: MY STRUGGLE
Pages: 1168
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2019-04-23
Reviews
"A thrilling conclusion to Knausgaard's epic series." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[Knausgaard's] all-in temperament richly rewards anybody who takes first-person writing seriously. A fittingly bulky end to a radical feat of oversharing." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Perhaps the most compelling of this epic's installments, and an undeniably impressive literary accomplishment." --Booklist (starred review)
"A fitting conclusion to a mesmerising work of art. . . . [H]ugely insightful, frequently brilliant. . . . [A]n exceptional piece of writing. . . . [The End's] absolute commitment to its own ideals, makes it--and the whole sequence--a mesmerising, thought-provoking and genuinely important work of art. Daunting it may be, but the rewards are more than worth the effort." --The Spectator (UK)
"Radically plainspoken, undeniable and wholly compelling. . . . Over and over, [Knausgaard] asserts something fundamental to literature, art and life." --The Independent
"What's certain is that the My Struggle series of autobiographical novels is a phenomenon. They have been translated into dozens of languages and were bought by such a high percentage of Norwegians that workplaces had to institute Knausgaard-free days to keep up productivity when a new volume was released. . . . My Struggle is a cultural moment worth getting involved in." --The Times
"My Struggle is a phenomenon. In Mr. Knausgaard's native Norway one in ten people owns a copy of one of the volumes, but its popularity is global. . . . Mr. Knausgaard succeeds in producing prose that is 'alive,' partly because of his eye for detail and partly because of the quality of his intellect." --The Economist
"The author's maddeningly compelling My Struggle project reaches its conclusion with a sixth volume. . . . You could call it a realist metafiction, in which Knausgaard can show and tell simultaneously, and as such it is easily read as a kind of key to the earlier books. . . . It is hard not to be impressed by the fluency and erudition on display as Knausgaard charts his course through history, philosophy, literature and the visual arts." --Financial Times
"The brilliant final moments of Knausgaard's epic struggle. The sixth volume of the celebrated autobiographical series does not disappoint. . . . It's a daring end to a brilliant series. . . . I will read this series again and again." --William Leith, London Evening Standard
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