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“I write exclusively for myself—absolutely 100 percent myself.” In this BBC Arts in Motion segment, Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about his childhood spent with books, the doubts he had beginning his career as a writer, and his writing practice and breakthrough publishing My Struggle, a six-book autobiographical series.
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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."
