My Struggle Book 1

A Death in the Family 

                    -Karl Ove Knausgard

If someone had told me something about the style of the author earlier, I might have not picked up this book. Thankfully, when I started reading Knausgard, all I knew was that its a series of 6 novels in an autobiographical format and the writing w
as damn good. I picked it up tentatively with the thought that if I do not enjoy it or understand it, my next read is ready. Once I started reading however, i was pulled into the story and the writing style. There's so much the author wants to say...he says it in as many words. It feels like Knausgard is letting you peep in through the window of his house to see all that is happening inside right from the drawing room, the kitchen, the TV room ...including the bathrooms at times. In the same way, he is letting you peep into the window of his mind, allowing you to see all the thoughts..not just thoughts but feelings going on in his mind in an unfiltered form. He lays himself bare to the reader in an extremely raw form - and as a reader one gets so engrossed in his narration that there is no need left to judge him or his feelings and thoughts. On the contrary the reader becomes a part of his everyday life, a companion, living his life with him. That a most mundane narration of everyday life can turn into an engrossing read kept surprising me at moments in between the book. And yet at the end of it all, what the author is doing is searching for his silence through the medium of words. As for me, My struggle Book 2 is already on its way through Amazon.