DANCING IN THE DARK: MY STRUGGLE: BOOK FOUR

London, England: Harvill Secker, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. London, England: Harvill Secker, 2015. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 395 pages. The fourth volume of the author's "My Struggle" six-volume novel. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. The translation is published in the United Kingdom as "Dancing In The Dark", and also as part of the British "My Struggle" six-volume cycle. It's the other way around in the United States, where "My Struggle" takes precedence over the individual volumes. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. Should not be confused with copies that are signed on the publisher's tipped-in page. The First Edition is now rare. The production values of the British Edition are superior in every respect to its American counterpart. Presents Karl Ove Knausgaard's "Min Kamp" Volume Four in a felicitous English translation. Portrait of The Writer As A Young Man. What is the significance of Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle"? It is the most full-fledged break from - and signals the end of - the mannerism, academicism, post-modernism, and all other pretentious and tired isms of our time. It confirms the arrival of a major and original voice in literature, writing in deceptively simple yet eloquent prose, without crutches. It rejects our obsession with "celebrity lives", by focussing on the tiniest details of one man's ordinary life as well as deeply painful struggle. It represents a new - and transgressive - way of writing for our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Karl Ove Knausgaard collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, placed, and dated in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "Chicago 29/4/16 Karl Ove Knausgaard". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It should also be noted that this copy has his FULLER signature, which is the way he signed the first three volumes of "My Struggle" when they first came out. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) from his Chicago debut available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Extreme demand and time constraint have made Knausgaard resort to an Ondaatje-like swirl of a signature. Copies signed in this drastically abbreviated way have little to no collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1846557240.