The End

Published, 1168 pages

Published: 2011

Edition: Alfred A. Knopf Canada (2018)

Part 8 Translated from the Norwegian by: Martin Aitken (2018)

Part 9 Translated from the Norwegian by: Don Bartlett (2018)

Original Title : Min kamp sjette bok. My Struggle Book Six

The sixth and final book in Knausgaard's epic My Struggle cycle--the most talked about literary project of its time.

The sprawling, intimate, and spectacularly unorthodox literary autobiography that unleashed a media frenzy upon its release in Norway, became a global publishing sensation, and sold millions of copies worldwide, now reaches its climactic conclusion.

In My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines with ruthless, unsparing rigour his life, his ambitions and frailties, his uncertainties and doubts, and his relationships with friends and exes, his wife and children, his mother and father. It is an opus in which life is described in all its nuances from moments of great drama to the most trivial everyday details. It is also a project that is full of risk, where the borders between private and public worlds cross, not without cost for the author himself and the people portrayed.

"The End", the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the earlier volumes, with Knausgaard facing growing literary acclaim and the often shattering repercussions that came with it. It is a book about literature itself and its relationship with reality, the capstone on a magnificent achievement.