Your comment made me think of -- while cleaning my kitchen this morning -- of why I think

Karl Ove Knausgard

has resonated so well and also why his autobiographical series are so important to literature of writers.

I was struck by an aesthetic feeling in the kitchen. I suddenly wanted to read Karl Ove again, and it was because the work is such an honest portrayal of a literary writer.

It shows you the good. But more importantly it shows you the life surrounding that. It shows the lingering and endless desert of hope exceptionally well. It shows the pent up tension between having works accepted and the final publishing exceptionally well too.

When reading it it feels like you are there with Karl Ove.... not just there with him but also you feel like you are a writer going through these events.

I don't think there is anything as developed that goes into that perspective and so I think for decades people will refer to his

My Struggle

series for just that.