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Unkindly light: The Morning Star, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, reviewed

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

The Morning Star Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken

Harvill Secker, pp.666, 20

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle sequence is one of this century’s great projects: an intimate epic in which the overriding obsessions of our times — identity, gender, the meaning of truth — play out through six maddeningly detailed, curiously compelling autofictions. It’s the kind of work that casts a long shadow; any fiction that follows, the author knows, is in communion, and competition, with that momentous work.

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