/lit/ - Literature

>>10486736
My Struggle, by this handsome fella.

>>7991543
look how frosty it is, that is product. dude works on his hair more than his prose.

Has anyone here read any of the books in this series? What did you think of it? I saw a Vice interview with Knausgard and his personality and the concept of his work intrigued me. I want to start reading the series, but, at 6 volumes and 3500 pages, it seems like a daunting commitment. Thoughts? Opinions?

"The parents standing along the wall smiled, the children on the floor shouted and laughed. The next second Benjamin yanked at his rod, and a red and white Hemköp goodie bag came flying over the sheet, attached by a clothes pin. He removed it and took a few steps away to open the bag in peace and quiet while the next child, Theresa, grabbed the fishing rod, helped by her mother. I wound my scarf around my neck and buttoned up the reefer jacket I had bought on sale last spring at Paul Smith in Stockholm, put on the hat I bought at the same place, bent down over the pile of shoes by the wall, found mine, a pair of black Wrangler shoes with yellow laces I’d bought in Copenhagen when I was at the book fair, and which I had never liked, not even when I bought them, and which furthermore were now tainted by the thought of the catastrophe that had befallen me there, as I had been incapable of answering sensibly a single question the enthusiastic and insightful interviewer had asked me on the stage. The reason I hadn’t thrown them out long ago rested exclusively on the fact that we were hard up. And the laces were so yellow!"

Norwegian Proust, indeed.