My Struggle 2: Men in Love
by (norway) Carl Ove Knausgaard
About This Novel
Norwegian writer Carl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel "Mein Kampf" has nothing to do with Hitler's ambitions, but the author's autobiography of his growth and life for more than 40 years. The themes of the six volumes are death, love, childhood, work, dreams, and thinking. The narrative of ordinary life is described in a flowing style, straightforward and frank, with "masochistic truth and triviality", and is good at showing touching sensitivity in details. This book is the second part of the "Mein Kampf" series. It describes how the protagonist Carl Ove constantly switches his roles in his second marriage: he is a lover full of restless hormones who chases and plays in love, a tender and affectionate husband who is responsive to all requests, and a mother-in-law. A new father who makes a grand trip with three baby carriages, a bad son-in-law who doesn't know how to deal with his mother-in-law, and a good son who makes a weird speech at his mother's birthday celebration - because he is also a writer who writes alone in his small room in the early morning or midnight, all of this can be vividly recorded.
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