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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.

Arne and Tove took their children to summer vacation in South Norway. When driving at night, hundreds of crabs gathered on the road in front of him; their friend Egil was divorced and lived alone in a holiday house on a nearby island, and temporarily needed to take care of his ten-year-old son for a week; the pastor Katrin was bored with her marriage. She had just returned from a business trip and was about to host a funeral for a man she met at the airport - and the funeral was arranged ten days ago; supermarket cashier Aislin returned to her rental house When he was about to fall asleep in the attic where he lived, someone knocked on the door frantically for help; nurse Zolfai assisted the doctor in extracting organs from a patient who had been declared brain-dead. After cutting open the patient's body, the electrocardiogram reappeared beating; reporter Jorstein hung out in the bar after get off work, and after receiving news from friends, he set off alone to the scene of the murder of a death metal band; his wife Tirid was a nurse in a mental hospital, and on the night she was on night shift, a patient escaped from the hospital. Following "Mein Kampf", this is the first in Knausgaard's latest novel series. This allegorical work traces the lives of nine characters who are related to each other. It outlines mysterious and strange events based on daily details, and explores important philosophical themes: death, faith and despair at the rhythm of a suspenseful narrative.

Karl Ove Knausgaard, a master of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, has created the third volume of a tetralogy based on the four seasons. Knausgaard's four-part literary project with the theme of the four seasons takes on a completely different shape in the new "In Spring". This time he abandoned all writing gimmicks or designs, and looked at his family and life completely as a father, recording for his newly born daughter a world she still knew nothing about - what kind of expectations she lived in her mother's belly, what hardships she had encountered with her mother, how her arrival healed the trauma in the family, and what kind of busy and tiring day she experienced under the care of her father not long after she came to this world. "In Spring" is another concentrated expression of Knausgaard's sensitive, honest, and speculative writing style. It is also the most emotionally rich part of the tetralogy. He reflects on his relationship with the world in trivial daily affairs, telling his newborn daughter what the bond between man and the world is, and at the same time leading us to rediscover the meaning of human existence in the world.