Karl Ove Knausgaard describes his 'struggle'

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard won critical praise for his first two novels, one of which was a highly inventive tale of human encounters with angels.

But for his third book, Knausgaard wrote about himself, and the result is a six-volume, 3,600-page, autobiographical, plotless tome titled My Struggle.

Knausgaard meditates on everything from changing diapers to his alcoholic father in the volumes, which are published as separate books. The international success of the books has led to his being compared with writers Marcel Proust and Louis-Ferdinand Celine.