{"id":3780,"date":"2015-06-29T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2015-06-29T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:01:54","slug":"my-struggle-by-karl-ove-knausgaard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3780","title":{"rendered":"My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3809\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1504549\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3809\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/My-Struggle-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"My Struggle\" width=\"173\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/My-Struggle-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/My-Struggle.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Can the mundane details of everyday life be transformed into literary art?\u00a0 This is Karle Ove Knausgaard&#8217;s accomplishment in his six-volume novel\/memoir entitled <em>My Struggle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the six books have been published in America, and we are joining a worldwide chorus of praise for this new literary star.<\/p>\n<p>So what is Book 1 about?\u00a0 As Jerry Seinfeld might say &#8211; it&#8217;s about nothing.\u00a0 In blinding detail, Karl Ove takes us along on simple events in his life, bouncing from adulthood to childhood and back again.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a novel or a memoir?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a memoir with such great detail\u00a0that he either has an encyclopedic memory, or he&#8217;s filling in his personal story with lots of fiction-like details.\u00a0 This is not your typical novel by any stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, his hyper-real style pulls us deep into his world, and&#8230;well, it&#8217;s difficult to get out.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, am hooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the mundane details of everyday life be transformed into literary art?\u00a0 This is Karle Ove Knausgaard&#8217;s accomplishment in his six-volume novel\/memoir entitled My Struggle. Four of the six books have been published in America, and we are joining a worldwide chorus of praise for this new literary star. So what is Book 1 about?\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}