A review by sujuv
Min kamp 6 by Karl Ove Knausgård

3.0

Seems appropriate that my last review of the year is the final book in this series that I've been reading for years. While it doesn't match up to the earlier volumes - largely because of a 400 page digression into Hitler, which might be great but wasn't what I wanted to read in the middle of this book so to be honest I skipped it - he does bring the same honesty to the topic at hand: how the response to his books and his fame affected his life, his family's life, and - most tragically - his wife's life. I was as always thoroughly engaged by his ability to make the mundane and quotidian sparkle. And his exploration of his already fragile wife's descent into mental illness is moving and painful. I am so glad to have read this series. It will stay with me for a long time.