# Karl Ove Knausgaard Looks Back on “My Struggle” **Opening (not a real abstract):** “The duty of literature is to fight fiction. It's to find a way into the world as it is.” The sixth and final volume of “My Struggle” was published in English this fall. But it came out in Norwegian, in 2011, three years after Karl Ove Knausgaard began writing the first volume, in 2008. The person who wrote those books both is and is not the man who, last month, came by my office to talk about them. He is now, for one thing, famous in an unusual way, having shared a remarkable number of intimate and embarrassing details with his readers. (“I have to hide from myself how much people know about me,” he said.) He is divorced from Linda Boström, to whom he is married in the novel. He lives in London and has quit smoking. He seems to be happier. To some readers, these changes may feel almost like a betrayal—as **Authors:** [[Karl Ove Knausgaard Looks]]