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Karl Ove Knausgaard: "I'm A Very Shame-Ridden Person" | LIVE from the NYPL

Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard was well known for his fiction in his native country, but his six-volume, 3,600-page autobiography, My Struggle, has made him a literary sensation, with some calling his long form and brutal honesty ground-breaking. In this clip, author Jeffrey Eugenides interviews Knausgaard on what it was like to write without shame. "It felt like a rush, is it possible to say this? And if it is, that's freedom."

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Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle
Jeffrey Eugenides

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