**A Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and The Week Book of the Year 2018**
The extraordinary final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental My Struggle series, 'perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian)
The End is the sixth and final book in the monumental My Struggle cycle. Here, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project.
This last volume reflects on the fallout from the earlier books, with Knausgaard facing the pressures of literary acclaim and its often shattering repercussions. The End is at once a meditation on writing and its relationship with reality, and an account of a writer's relationship with himself - his ambitions, his doubts and frailties.
My Struggle depicts life in all its shades, from moments of great drama to seemingly trivial everyday details. It is a project freighted with risk, where the bounds between private and public worlds are tested, not without penalty for the author himself and those around him. The End is the capstone on an unparalleled achievement.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
For all its complexity, My Struggle achieves something pretty simple, the thing that enduring fiction has always done: it creates a world that absorbs you utterly... The End is alive. -- Theo Tait * Sunday Times * Knausgaard's rendering of this crisis - the jitteriness, the relentlessness with which he goes over events again and again, his overwhelming sense of transgression and shame - is riveting... Every changed nappy, every cigarette smoked on the balcony, every cup of coffee poured from that damn vacuum jug is another alibi; the creation of the normal life that distracts from the roiling mess within... That we cannot quite name what we've experienced is part of the brilliance. -- Alex Clark * Guardian * The End is woven of a man's love for his family and his obsession with the solitary writing life, the warp and weft of these contradictory passions sometimes meshing together perfectly... My Struggle is a cultural moment worth getting involved in. The six volumes offer something special: total immersion in the soap opera of another person's life. -- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times * A uniquely compelling and absorbing reading experience... captivating interplay between banality and beauty, the redundant and the sublime. -- Chris Power * New Statesman * Compulsively addictive... His way of describing "reality as it is" is to expand the range of thoughts and actions, however mundane or shameful, that a human being will publicly admit to. -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph * This central tension, between the needs of the artist and the need of the husband and father, one that has coursed through My Struggle's thousands of pages, Knausgaard appears to bring to a moving, wholly fitting resolution... its totality, its absolute commitment to its own ideals, make it - and the whole sequence - a mesmerising, thought-provoking and genuinely important work of art. -- Stuart Evers * Spectator * A daring end to a brilliant series... I will read this series again and again. -- William Leith * Evening Standard * It is hard not to be impressed by the fluency and erudition on display as Knausgaard charts his course through history, philosophy, literature and the visual arts... In the end, reality does not break down under Knausgaard's gaze. We are left instead with the world as it is: the click of a seatbelt, the shock of melted margarine, the centuries slipping away in Rembrandt's eyes. -- Lorien Kite * Financial Times * The inner conflicts swirling around exert a gravitational pull on the reader, the challenges of empathy becoming universal through their particularity. Over and over, he asserts something fundamental to literature, art and life... these books will endure. -- Alasdair Lees * Independent * My Struggle just keeps coming at you, much as life does... Knausgaard succeeds in producing prose that is "alive", partly because of his eye for detail and partly because of the quality of his intellect. * Economist * [My Struggle] is arguably the most important literary event of the 21st century...it's also worth reflecting on just how valuable these books can be. They are, among other things, uniquely candid about male shame, which makes them a highly valuable guide to modern masculinity. -- Josh Glancy * Sunday Times * The End is worth the wait... his life is now destined to stand in the shadow of this truly monumental six-volume literary achievement. And perhaps there is no greater mark of artistic success than that. -- Andrew Anthony * Observer * The "unartiness" is the most striking element of Knausgaard's project. The impression of randomness and spontaneity... Knausgaard's abandonment of fictional convention was particularly disruptive because he executed it in a realm where the strictures of artifice are most rigidly codified: domestic realism... Enthralling... The final passages of My Struggle are guilt-ridden and heartbreaking. -- Christian Lorentzen * Times Literary Supplement * [The End] has a bone-dry wit, a certain knowingness about the project's grandiose archetypes... [Knausgaard] laments the gulf between vaulting ambition and its haphazard realisation. -- Keith Miller * Literary Review *
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 162 mm
Dicke: 56 mm
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978-1-84655-829-0 (9781846558290)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author)
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.
Martin Aitken (Translator)
Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature number some 30 books. He was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award in 2017, was a finalist at the US National Book Awards in 2018 and received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019. He lives in Denmark.
