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A review by erickibler4
My Struggle, Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
5.0
Karl Ove, just out of high school, gets a job as a teacher in a small village in northern Norway. He teaches, gets drunk, writes short stories, and tries time after time to lose his virginity, but...problems occur. The story doubles back to his final two years of gymnas (high school), before returning to his teaching year.
This is cringeworthy stuff, but very compelling reading. Karl Ove is simultaneously cool, dorky, and a bit of a shit. But as his adult self, writing the book, owns up to all of his faults, you forgive him. Especially after we've already seen him as a responsible husband and father in Volume 2. There's a lot of stuff in here that 18 year old Karl Ove would have been mortified to admit, but his older self does a great job at putting us in his earlier head with seemingly no restraint.
When we get older and have more experience under our belts, we can have a few laughs at the expense of our less experienced earlier selves.
This is cringeworthy stuff, but very compelling reading. Karl Ove is simultaneously cool, dorky, and a bit of a shit. But as his adult self, writing the book, owns up to all of his faults, you forgive him. Especially after we've already seen him as a responsible husband and father in Volume 2. There's a lot of stuff in here that 18 year old Karl Ove would have been mortified to admit, but his older self does a great job at putting us in his earlier head with seemingly no restraint.
When we get older and have more experience under our belts, we can have a few laughs at the expense of our less experienced earlier selves.