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
My Dark Places (book) exposed... and best of all, it is all written in that familiar Ellroy style, each sentence like a finger jabbed in your chest... This is a mesmerizing book." —"Men's Journal". Ellroy's "My Dark Places" also was a "Time" Best Book of the Year, as well as a "New York Times" Notable Book for 1996. My Dark Places (book) My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir is a 1996 book, part investigative journalism and part memoir, by American crime-fiction writer James Ellroy. Ellroy's mother Geneva was murdered in 1958, when he was 10 years old, and the killer was never identified.