Culture | Sins of the fathers
Karl Ove Knausgaard reaches The End of his struggle
But is his strange fictional autobiography a masterpiece or a literary circus act?
My Struggle: Book Six. By Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken.Archipelago; 1,160 pages; $33. Published in Britain as “The End” by Harvill Secker; £25.
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