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The urge to purge: it’s closure at last for the tortured Karl Ove Knausgaard

1 September 2018

9:00 AM

1 September 2018

9:00 AM

And so it comes, the final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle sequence: a pale brick of a book, one that might be The End, but is an undertaking all of itself. The previous five books — autofictions that catalogue one’s man’s life in exacting, almost terrifyingly detail — were far from slender, but The End is nearly 1,200 pages, and as such presents itself almost as a challenge, or a dare.

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