Re:Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes “My Struggle”
by crazygringo on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:12PM
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The allusion was intentional.
> The title of the series, of both the English translation and the original Norwegian, is a translation of "Mein Kampf" and is thus a clear reference to Hitler. In an essay for the New Yorker's website, Evan Hughes explains how Knausgård, in interviews, "has argued that a frightening characteristic that connects Mein Kampf to the writings of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Utøya massacre, is that in the mind behind both texts there seems to be an 'I' and a 'we' but no 'you,' reflecting a dangerous blindness that allowed an otherwise impossible evil."[2] The sixth book of the series includes a meditation on the Breivik attacks.
> The title of the series, of both the English translation and the original Norwegian, is a translation of "Mein Kampf" and is thus a clear reference to Hitler. In an essay for the New Yorker's website, Evan Hughes explains how Knausgård, in interviews, "has argued that a frightening characteristic that connects Mein Kampf to the writings of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Utøya massacre, is that in the mind behind both texts there seems to be an 'I' and a 'we' but no 'you,' reflecting a dangerous blindness that allowed an otherwise impossible evil."[2] The sixth book of the series includes a meditation on the Breivik attacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Struggle_(Knausg%C3%A5rd_no...