Karl Ove Knausgård’s “The Morning Star”: The suffering never ends – new books

The Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård is made world famous by his six-part novel project, in which he spreads out his own life between childhood, becoming an author and being a father and a moderately good husband on 4,800 pages. Knausgård zoomed in on his own private life in great detail, but at the same time got into philosophizing. Counting records or waiting for the bus in the middle of nowhere, he was fantastic at capturing a retro attitude to life. Since then, four books have appeared regarding his children, but the extended family resented his exploitation of the private sphere, sometimes under threat of lawsuits.