![]() ![]() Though Knausgaard has published several books since “My Struggle,” it will undoubtedly be the anchor to which his career and life are moored. “ My Struggle,” Knausgaard’s six-volume, nearly 4,000-page magnum opus, has been called “perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of its time” by Rachel Cusk, his compatriot in the world of autofiction. So what was my crime? I wrote a novel.”īut not just any novel. ![]() Many cyclopes have publicly contended that I’m a misogynist, that I hate women.” Another cyclops “has claimed I’m a literary pedophile who has abused young girls. compared me to Anders Behring Breivik,” begins Knausgaard’s litany. But no, the immediate subjects of “ In the Land of the Cyclops” are Knausgaard’s allegedly myopic critics. One might assume that the “cyclops” in the title of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first collection of critical essays published in English has something to do with visual art or photography, core subjects of many of these essays. ![]() If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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