/lit/ - Literature

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No, but My Struggle is.

Any literature about parenthood or told through a parent's view? (besides pic related)

I'm just a dumb half-wit who only reads occasionally, I have little contact with contemporary lit, I mainly read the classics and this was compared to Proust, so I picked this up.
I'm halfway through the first volume and I'm struggling.
It's just unremarkable, dull. I don't know what the novel is supposed to rely on in making itself worthwile to spend time on. I mean barring the main reason it got attention worldwide, which is the excruciating honesty adherence to fact, new paradigm in narration. But it still has to function as a novel, hasn't it?

There's nothing philosophical going on, that's for sure. I mean there was like a page worth of your basic existential absurd stuff along the lines of "I have kids I take care of, I'm fulfilling my role and only then think what I am doing here on this world", but I doubt it was even an effort to philosophise, perhaps for the best given how unoriginal it was.

So we have no philosophy. Perhaps the narrator skillfully goes on describing characters' feelings so we could sympathise, go through their struggle together with them? Not quite, the style is too plain for that, it's just sad to see something like " I saw X and it made me feel nostalgic, but I don't quite know why. <next paragraph, change of topic>"
So maybe there's intrigue? Nope, just an ordinary life of an average dude. Sure, he develops with age, meets girls, nothing beyond standard life experience. Boring stuff to be honest. Do we get to get some insight into intricacies of the Scandinavian society through his eyes? Still, it's so plain, nothing catches your eye as you read.
Did anyone like this?

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Min Kamp by Karl Ove Knausgård