Et opgør med Författaren

Slutningens betydning for Karl Ove Knausgårds Min Kamp

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  • Rikke Andersen Kraglund

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v37i88.135735

Nøgleord:

passage, knausgård, My Struggle, Strindberg, autobiography, forfätteren, litteratur, literature

Resumé

At the end of the sixth volume of My Struggle, Knausgård writes that he now wants to enjoy, “really enjoy the thought that I am no longer a writer.” These famous words have been read as the author’s farewell to his authorship, which was not, however, confirmed by the author’s further writings. In this article, I show that the closing words can be understood with reference to August Strindberg’s Forfättaren (1877- 1887) as a break with a particular image of the author to which My Struggle relates. This interpretation of the closing words also gives a completely new understanding of how My Struggle is doubleexposed with Strindberg’s autobiographical project, and thus far more constructed than has hitherto been recognized. This also sheds a different light on the work’s relationship to the autobiographical genre, its authenticity and character assassination.

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Publiceret

2023-01-24

Citation/Eksport

Andersen Kraglund, R. (2023). Et opgør med Författaren: Slutningens betydning for Karl Ove Knausgårds Min Kamp. Passage - Tidsskrift for Litteratur Og Kritik, 37(88), 51–65. https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v37i88.135735

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