FICTION

My Struggle: Book Four

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Archipelago. 2015. 485p. tr. from Norwegian by Don Bartlett. ISBN 9780914671176. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780374711153. F
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They're not moody thrillers or sexcapades, but Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical fiction series has attracted frantic fans worldwide. His excellent writing is at once fluidly absorbing and prodigiously detailed, but not every reader will care for this amount of quotidian self-regard. Here, an 18-year-old Karl Ove, callow, cocky, yet full of self-doubt, heads to a small fishing village in Norway's north to work as a school teacher while laying his grand plans to become a writer.
VERDICT Knausgaard captures the coming-of-age experience and our millennial absorption in equal measure for readers who like to sink deeply into daily life.
Reviewed by Barbara hoffert , Jun 01, 2015
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