![]() “The whole point of the novel,” he writes, “was to depict reality as it was.” Writing about life was his means of escaping from life. ![]() However, in this case, the author had set his heart on writing the “truth”, not just the emotional version of it, but also the factual, the real version. That wouldn’t normally be a charge that would trouble a fiction writer. His uncle accused him of making things up in the novel. Here, in the sixth, he records in what can only be called Knausgaardian detail the family feud and authorial crisis unleashed by that initial publication. Knausgaard had written two volumes of My Struggle and was about to start work on the third, when the first – A Death in the Family – came out. ![]() ![]() The answer to all those questions, it turns out, is a lot. ![]()
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