Knausgård’s Strange Approach to Hitler

This week the final part of Karl Ove Knausgård’s autobiography, Min Kamp VI is to be published in German as Kämpfen. In this novel there is a long essay on Hitler and Nazism. It has been criticized in Scandinavia, by myself and others, because Knausgård wishes to portray Hitler as an ordinary man, at the same time withholding important facts.[i] Let me start by saying how much I appreciate reading Knausgård when he describes his own life. There is a nerve and energetic presence even on the gr..