Introduction

[...]a large part of the scholarship chose to focus on the autobiographical aspect as scholars analyzed and dissected the relationship between fiction and reality in Knausgård's novel. [...]the Scandinavian scholarship on Min kamp has leftus with a number of labels that ultimately seek to describe the same thing: terms such as performative biographism, fictionless fiction, and autonarration, to name but a few.1 Meanwhile, in the decade since the appearance of Book 1 in Norway, Knausgård became an international literary sensation, a writer enjoyed compulsively by a wide readership almost everywhere the novels have appeared in translation, and admired by other writers from Ben Lerner to Zadie Smith. [...]in her article about Knausgård's reactions to the July 22, 2011, far-right terrorist attacks in Norway, Ingvild Folkvord highlights a significant shift in the nature of Knausgård's response.