'My Struggle' is the provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel of Karl Ove Knausgaard that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears 'A la recherche du temps perdu' and 'Mein Kampf'-but it has also been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.

"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...Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: his father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel."--