Karl Ove Knausgaard

When I was growing up, my mother had Mein Kampf displayed prominently in the living room. She originally bought it because she wanted to understand what had driven her husband, her only good friend at the time, so far into Europe, a place she barely ever even anticipated, through the American WWII army draft.
She always asked us not to touch it.
She told us it was awful, and commemorated a nightmarish part of human history.
She told us about the Nuremburg trials.
She explained Joseph Mengele.
She talked about the 'Desert Fox'. She especially hated him because his campaign focused on Africa.
From time to time she'd mention a name and a horror from that book. The thing was a memento of
a hell generated by sub-humans for humans.
None of us ever touched that book as far as I know.
It seemed to remain untouched on the shelf forever.
It may now be somewhere here in our house now, as most of my parents' books came to me; but no
matter how historic it may be, I will not be able to read it.
I surely won't be able or willing to read another book by the same name, this time written by a real
Aryan.
Knausgaard claims he still wakes up unhappy every day. Is he bragging?
He says his dad was a drunk who didn't like him.
An alcoholic is his own worst enemy.
His or her children can see this if they are able to grow up- which alcoholism in a parent can prevent.
People often don't see they can outgrow another person's alcoholism. Knausgaard is obviously one
of those people.
Knausgaard seems to be one of those people.
And Norwegians are falling for it hook, line, and sinker.
Apparently, many people of many countries and nationalities are falling for it.
Thomas Frank should know Kansas is not the only curious place in the world.
What's the matter with Norway?
Knausgaard, who had been living in Sweden, went back home to Norway when he heard about the
nearly seventy kids killed in a massacre at a Norwegian summer camp.
Mr. Knausgaard can describe the slaughter in detail, victim by victim, per his fascination with it.
What I think might help him is to listen to and study all of  Coldplay's music.