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I find it shocking that more people haven't commented on the title. I have searched through articles, and while they mention the obvious connection to Hitler, none of them ask about it in detail. WHY would he call it that, and what point is he trying to make? I can't bring myself to read the book, brilliant though it may be, because the title is too horrifying for me to move past.
Michael Wong To all the comments about that there's no connection to "Main Kampf": There's no way he couldn't have known everyone on Earth would see the shared tit…moreTo all the comments about that there's no connection to "Main Kampf": There's no way he couldn't have known everyone on Earth would see the shared title. Why he kept it anyways is unclear to me.

These books are groundbreaking. I'm midway through #3. They are unlike anything I've ever read.

They are not enjoyable to read. Knausgaard seems like a jerk. He's seems massively self-centered, mildly racist, blatantly sexist, arbitrarily conservative and arrogantly spiritual.

And yet while he clearly is aware that all of the above would be easily perceived and garner unfavorable reactions, he neither changed the narrative to hide it or justify it, but simply and eloquently related his life experience without journalistic embellishment while still maintaining novelist prose style.(less)
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by Karl Ove Knausgård
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