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In a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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‘Kim Adrian’s loving struggle with Knausgaard is the kind of criticism I most enjoy - personal, wonderfully engaged, intense but somehow simultaneously light-footed, and extremely intelligent. The brilliance of her feminist critique is that it acutely exposes vulnerabilities in Knausgaard’s male universalism while affectionately acknowledging the scope and appeal of his inevitably gendered voice. A delight from start to finish.’ James Wood, literary critic


‘On display is a rigorous mind, a fiery intellect, a curious and engaged reader. Adrian brings lofty ideas - questions of attention and meaning, of the troubling permeability between inside and outside, of reality itself - down to the meat-and-feeling human level.’

Boston Globe

Dear Knausgaard

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      Publisher Boiler House Press
      Published 29 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9781913861384
      978-1913861384
      ISBN-10 1913861384
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.

      Trade Review

      ‘Kim Adrian’s loving struggle with Knausgaard is the kind of criticism I most enjoy - personal, wonderfully engaged, intense but somehow simultaneously light-footed, and extremely intelligent. The brilliance of her feminist critique is that it acutely exposes vulnerabilities in Knausgaard’s male universalism while affectionately acknowledging the scope and appeal of his inevitably gendered voice. A delight from start to finish.’ James Wood, literary critic


      ‘On display is a rigorous mind, a fiery intellect, a curious and engaged reader. Adrian brings lofty ideas - questions of attention and meaning, of the troubling permeability between inside and outside, of reality itself - down to the meat-and-feeling human level.’

      Boston Globe

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