My Struggle (Knausgård novels) published as "The End: My Struggle Book 6". The title of the series, of both the English translation and the original Norwegian, is a translation of "Mein Kampf" and is thus a clear reference to Hitler. In an essay for the "New Yorker"s website, Evan Hughes explains how Knausgård, in interviews, "has argued that a frightening characteristic that connects "Mein Kampf" to the writings of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Utøya massacre, is that in the mind behind both texts there seems to be an 'I' and a 'we' but no 'you,' reflecting a dangerous blindness that allowed
The Book of the Long Sun minor god known as The Outsider who has enlightened him. He becomes a revolutionary leader and prophet. The working title for the series was "Starcrosser's Landfall", and dust jacket mockups of the first volume were printed with that title. In the defense at the end of the final volume, the author refers to it alternately as "The Book of the Long Sun", "Starcrosser's Landfall", and "The Book of Silk". In the event, "The Book of the Long Sun" was published in four volumes, almost simultaneously in the U.S. (Tor Books imprint, Tom Doherty Associates) and U.K. (New English Library imprint,