A Man in Love: My Struggle, Book 2, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett
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In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.
My Struggle, book two, is at heart a love story - the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his novel. It is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the unlikely promise that hundreds of minutes later, listeners will be left breathlessly demanding more.
A Man in Love: My Struggle, Book 2, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett- Amazon Sales Rank: #21760 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 1263 minutes
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73 of 75 people found the following review helpful. Suspense novel By Literary Lizzie The odd thing about Knausgaard is that though he writes almost entirely about everyday events of the most mundane nature--family, children, social life, hopes and problems--his writing creates a continuous sense of tension, as if something startling or dreadful or life changing might happen at any minute. But it doesn't. It just flows into the next homely situation, or recollects some equally common human experience or dilemma from his past. I can just hear many readers complaining about this, in one way or another. If it were a film they would really complain.But the tension is dramatic. Many of us live with a kind of tension in our lives, especially if we're given to be the more creative, introverted and sensitive sort of person. This everyday tension makes it feel real and oddly important, without cataclysm or climax. Life is made up of a connection of nearly random details that may finally create change--and in Knausgaard you are aware of this build up, you may feel a sort of dread of the change and you are drawn into its drama.
39 of 42 people found the following review helpful. "A Gaze You Could Meet" By The Ginger Man Knausgaard's writes about everyday life. But for him, daily routines and duties are endured rather than enjoyed. "So the life I led was not my own," he says. "I tried to make it mine. This was my struggle."His book is personal, profound and quotidian; it is also a journal rather than a true novel. The author shares his disrespect for fictional writing and documentary narrative, both of which, he contends, have no value. Instead, he argues that diaries and essays confer meaning because they consist of "the voice of your own personality, a life, a face, a gaze you could meet."The author's gaze in My Struggle looks upon the details of daily life and uses them to illuminate the larger themes of love, friendship, marriage, parenthood, Swedish versus Norwegian lifestyle, art and the act of creation, mortality and how to prepare meals for toddlers. The strongest part of the book is in the opening 200 pages in which Karl Ove acts as husband and father; loving both roles but struggling greatly in the daily acts that make those roles a reality. He experiences feelings of helplessness and anger in a painful visit to Fairy Tale Land. His loss of masculine self-image is felt when he cannot get his wife out of a locked bathroom at a party. A pitiful effort to maintain space from other people as he reads in a coffee shop displays his feelings of alienation. The inability to resolve conflict in a civilized Swedish environment is obvious in a conflict with a neighbor over loud music. The pressure to spend time with people whose only relationship to him is that their children know each other is developed in a scene at a child's birthday party. In sum, these feelings that there is a more authentic life from which Knausgaard has been outcast culminate in his attendance with his child at Rhythm Time class. As he is forced to sing with other parents, Karl Ove thinks, "I had forfeited everything that was me."There are brilliant passages in My Struggle as well as long sections when the reader must bear with the author's gaze at the details of non-events. The latter inform the former, however, and most often reward the patient reader.Knausgaard is sincere in his struggle and realizes that indifference is the greatest of the seven deadly sins "because it is the only one that sins against life." His journal recognizes the need to somehow both surmount and enjoy the quotidian, while maintaining touch with the ideal. The reader who joins the author in his struggle is rewarded by a journal elevated to the level of art. For, asks the author, "What is a work of art if not the gaze of another person?..You meet it's gaze alone."
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful. An amazing experience By David Bradford Reading this book was an amazing experience for me. The writer lays bare his very soul. I find it difficult to analyse why this book and his earlier book 'A Death in the Family' made such a huge impression. My life has been nothing like this man's life, I am much older than he is, we are not at all alike, we live in totally different parts of the world with greatly different climates, I am not heterosexual and I've never experienced bringing up children. Yet, His thoughts resonate with me. I am sorry to have finished reading; each day I purposely kept my daily reading to a limited number of pages to spin out the enjoyment. The writer says about reading Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks that for him every page brought pleasure. I felt exactly the same about this book. I hope the English translation of the next four books in his life saga are not too long in making their appearance! I shall be eagerly awaiting them.
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