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The Struggle and The Scream: is Karl Ove Knausgaard Munch’s doppelgänger?

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

Norway doesn’t have a world-class philosopher (Kierkegaard was Danish). Karl Ove Knausgaard declared at the end of his previous book that he is no longer a writer, and it looks as though he’s moving in to fill that space. A very modern space: a selfie space. Nietzsche observed that all philosophy is autobiography, and Knausgaard certainly qualifies, having written 4,000 pages of a multi-volume autobiography called My Struggle.

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