Stella answers “Does anybody really know why Karl Ove...”

Jim Nail asked this question about My Struggle: Book Two:

Does anybody really know why Karl Ove Knausgaard gave his book(s) the same title as Hitler's infamous volume? I just started Volume 2 and really digging it, but every now and then he throws in something about some people from another culture looking oddly out of place in the crowd, and it makes me nervous. His work seems much more personal than political, and these references would probably otherwise go unnoticed.

Stella I have just started The Struggle 2, reading in the bus on my way to work and suddenly I read the following line:
"the life around me was not meaningfu…moreI have just started The Struggle 2, reading in the bus on my way to work and suddenly I read the following line:
"the life around me was not meaningful. I always longed to be away from it, and always had done. So the life I led was not my own. I tried to make it mine, this was my struggle, because of course I wanted it, but I failed, the longing for something else undermined all my efforts"
So, in my opinion this is the reason for the title of his books. It is his struggle in order to find the meaning of his own life.

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