As Knausgaard writes:įor more than three years I have spent my mornings in the same way, sitting here or at home in the apartment in Malmö, bent over the keyboard, writing this novel, which is now drawing to a close. Unlike the previous volumes, which were written and published fast in Norway, in the space of a year between 20, volume six, simply but also grandly entitled The End in its UK edition, didn’t appear until 2011, and so was written with an awareness that My Struggle had become a sensation. It opens with Knausgaard having pictures taken for the jacket of volume one (entitled A Death in the Family in the UK, although the Norwegian originals are simply Min Kamp, or My Struggle, 1–6), and for the book’s first few hundred pages he gets increasingly stressed about his uncle Gunnar’s hostile reaction to the pre-publication manuscript that has been sent for approval to people mentioned in the text.
In the sixth and final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, his enormous autobiographical novel (3,669 pages in Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken’s translation) loops back and begins eating itself.
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